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Crotalus oreganus, commonly known as the Western rattlesnake or northern Pacific rattlesnake, [4] [5] is a venomous pit viper species found in western North America from the Baja California Peninsula to the southern interior of British Columbia.
The United States in the Great Basin region. Its range includes Idaho south of lat. 44° North, Utah west of long. 111° West, Arizona west and north of the Colorado River as well as the north rim of the Grand Canyon, the entire state of Nevada (excluding Esmeralda, Nye and Clark counties), California east of the Sierra Nevada from Lower Klamath Lake south to below Lake Mono, Oregon south and ...
Still, about 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year, with 10 to 15 deaths resulting. To avoid rattlesnake bites , do not approach any snake you cannot positively ...
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Klauber LM (1971). "Classification, distribution and biology of the venomous snakes of northern Mexico, the United States and Canada: Crotalus and Sistrurus". pp. 115–156. In: Bucherl, Wolfgang; Buckley, Eleanore E. (1971). Venomous Animals and Their Venoms, Volume II, Venomous Vertebrates. New York: Academic Press. 687 pp. ISBN 978-0-12 ...
Those being studied now are prairie rattlesnakes, which can be found in much of the central and western U.S. and into Canada and Mexico. Like other pit viper species but unlike most snakes ...
An estimated 7,000 to 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year, with about five deaths. [92] The most important factor in survival following a severe envenomation is the time elapsed between the bite and treatment. Most deaths occur between 6 and 48 hours after the bite.