TOXINS … MEET YOUR MATCH: The World Health Organization has estimated that a mind-numbing 94,000 people die each year from poisonous snakebites. That’s hundreds a day. Ouch!
Despite never having died from a poisonous snake bite – at least that I know of – I can still confidently assert it’s no way to go. Offering me a vague insight was the time back in grammar school when I was bitten by my thought-pet garter snake – in front of the entire third-grade class.
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