Man Dies Snake Bite:fatal snake bite, A Nixa, Missouri, man who waded into the James River on Friday was nibbled on both legs by a venomous snake and kicked the bucket Saturday.
Christian County Coroner Brad Cole said Gilbert De Leon, 37, and his sweetheart were at the Delaware Access southwest of Nixa on Friday evening when the episode happened.
"His sweetheart reported that he hollered he'd been chomped by a snake and escaped from the stream to discover he'd been nibbled twice — once on every leg," Cole said. "I'm not certain what sort of snake bit him, but rather the main venomous water snake I'm mindful of is a cottonmouth. It could have been something else, yet we simply don't have a clue."
Cole said that regardless of his sweetheart's requests for De Leon to go to a healing facility, the man rejected and rather went home.
"That night he got torpid however just wouldn't go to a healing center," Cole said. "They went to overnight boardinghouse reported he was wheezing more noisily than normal. The following morning when she woke up, she discovered him dead."
Cole said the tooth imprints were 3/4 of an inch wide, which demonstrated to him it was not a huge snake that bit De Leon. He suspects the man kicked the bucket from the snake chomps, however has not controlled a reason for death.
"We've sent off for lab tests that will take around eight weeks to get back," Cole said. "The lab won't let us know anything around a snake nibble, yet it will say if there was a medication overdose or liquor overdose. Then again, I didn't discover whatever else that looked to me like the reason for death was something besides a snake nibble."
Cole said it was the first conceivable snake chomp casualty he had found in his profession.
Missouri is home to five types of venomous snakes, including cottonmouths, copperheads and three types of rattler
Christian County Coroner Brad Cole said Gilbert De Leon, 37, and his sweetheart were at the Delaware Access southwest of Nixa on Friday evening when the episode happened.
"His sweetheart reported that he hollered he'd been chomped by a snake and escaped from the stream to discover he'd been nibbled twice — once on every leg," Cole said. "I'm not certain what sort of snake bit him, but rather the main venomous water snake I'm mindful of is a cottonmouth. It could have been something else, yet we simply don't have a clue."
Cole said that regardless of his sweetheart's requests for De Leon to go to a healing facility, the man rejected and rather went home.
"That night he got torpid however just wouldn't go to a healing center," Cole said. "They went to overnight boardinghouse reported he was wheezing more noisily than normal. The following morning when she woke up, she discovered him dead."
Cole said the tooth imprints were 3/4 of an inch wide, which demonstrated to him it was not a huge snake that bit De Leon. He suspects the man kicked the bucket from the snake chomps, however has not controlled a reason for death.
"We've sent off for lab tests that will take around eight weeks to get back," Cole said. "The lab won't let us know anything around a snake nibble, yet it will say if there was a medication overdose or liquor overdose. Then again, I didn't discover whatever else that looked to me like the reason for death was something besides a snake nibble."
Cole said it was the first conceivable snake chomp casualty he had found in his profession.
Missouri is home to five types of venomous snakes, including cottonmouths, copperheads and three types of rattler
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