Red on yellow kill a fellow , red on black a friend to jack.

[bellaleo]

Coral snake antivenom production will be stoping soon and the stockpile of antivenom will be expiring.

http://www.popularmechani...g=pop&ha=1&kw=ist

[Magic City Matt]

considering only one has been seen in the last 20 someodd years.... I'm ok with that

[WolfVanZandt]

The only people I would worry about are kids. They're the only ones I think I've ever heard of dying from a coral snake bite. The last case I heard about was about 10 years ago (I think, I have no sense of time). A child was playing in one of those playgrounds with a pool of plastic ball in Florida and was bitten and died.

[Haveuseen1]

Wow, I havent been here in a while and two snake threads at the same time.

Coral Snakes are not that uncommon in south alabama.  I believe at one time there was even a "reward" offered to anyone who found one North of Birmingham, from an Auburn professor.  I cant verify that, although I have heard that several times.

I would only guess the number of people that are bitten by a coral snake vs the ongoing research costs are way out of scale.

[WolfVanZandt]

Coral snake venom is extremely virulent (I'm think I've read that it's the most dangerous venom in the US) but the snake has to latch on and chew to poison someone, they tend to be timid, and it's unlikely that anyone is going to just let the snake bite them and sit there and chew. They don't have big fangs like other poisonous snakes.

[mkarnott]

http://blog.al.com/spotne...ke_found_in_wilds_of.html
This was one year ago.  I saw a coral snake when I was a kid at the old Fish Hatchery by Municipal Park in Mobile (probably 40 years ago).