(AP) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Conservation officials say a southeast Missouri man who died after being bitten by a snake last weekend is only the state's second fatality resulting from a copperhead bite.
Fifty-year-old Terry Brown of Ellsinore died Sunday in Poplar Bluff after being bitten on the thumb by the snake in his family's tent along the Current River. The Springfield News-Leader reports Brown was trying to get the snake out of the tent Saturday when he was bitten, and was unconscious within 15 minutes.
Missouri Department of Conservation herpetologist says a death in the Kansas City area in 1965 is the only other time a person died in Missouri from a copperhead bite. The only other death resulting from a venomous snakebite was attributed to a timber rattlesnake.
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Information from: Springfield News-Leader, http://www.news-leader.com
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