Man recovering after pygmy rattlesnake strike

Reported by: Jim Hice
Email: jhice@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 8/25/2009 7:57 am

Pygmy rattlesnake (Haplochromis, Wikimedia Commons)

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CARROLLWOOD, FL -- Matt Browder was mowing a lawn in Lutz when a pygmy rattlesnake bit him on the foot. He was only wearing flip-flops.

The 28-year-old is expected to be okay, but he will have to spend at least a day in the hospital.

Broward was the ninth venomous snake bite patient at University Community Hospital in recent months. If that pace continues, it will set a record.

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