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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
“Sean Bush, a snake expert at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University told NBC News in 2014 that it’s ‘very common’ for snake heads to still bite because it’s ‘a last-ditch effort to survive.’ In 2014, a Chinese chef was reportedly killed by the head of a spitting cobra as he prepared to serve its body for soup, according to the China Daily.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/07/a-texas-man-decapitated-a-rattlesnake-it-bit-him-anyway-and-he-nearly-died-his-wife-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5748f72af0c2&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1A Texas man decapitated a rattlesnake. It bit him anyway and he nearly died, his wife says.Jeremy Sutcliffe needed 26 doses of antivenin and was on a ventilator for five days, his wife said.