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To: djane who wrote (5291)	6/22/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

NYT article on dead rattlesnakes. (Possibly relevant to Iridium ?) June 22, 1999 BEWARE OF DEAD RATTLESNAKES. THEY BITE. Spanish explorers in the 16th century first recorded the fact that dead rattlesnakes can bite, but that word has apparently not gotten around: two toxicologists in Phoenix found that 15 percent of the rattlesnake bites they treated in a 10-month period came from snakes that had been decapitated, shot or whomped until dead. Dr. Jeffrey R. Suchard of the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center said that he and a colleague, Dr. Frank LoVecchio, conducted the study after a man came in for treatment in 1997 after he had been bitten while picking up the corpse of a snake he had bludgeoned with a shovel. "We thought it was pretty weird, and decided to keep track," Dr. Suchard said. Their study was published as a letter in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Their expectation was that such after-death encounters would prove to be very uncommon. But five of the 34 rattlesnake bite victims they treated fit the bill. The first of the five had beaten a rattlesnake on the head with a stick until it was motionless, then was bitten on the index finger when he picked it up. Two others had shot the snakes in the head and picked them up after waiting a few minutes. And two had decapitated the snakes with bullets and were bitten when they picked up the severed heads; one patient had to have a finger amputated. Dr. Suchard said that earlier studies have found that overall, people who are bitten by rattlesnake tend to be "intoxicated young men." Only one of the five patients bitten by a dead snake in his study was drunk, but none displayed what he considered to be good judgment. "The basic message people should know is to leave snakes alone," he said. "If you are so foolhardy as to try and kill one, then don't think it's O.K. to pick it up just because it's dead." There is only one right thing to do when a rattlesnake is encountered, he added: "Call animal control." JOHN O'NEIL Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company