Years ago I attended a talk by a Tucson doctor who had treated roughly 50 patients. The worst cases were small children bitten while around the house. The others were snake collectors, deliberately messing with the critters. Darwin award, anyone?

In twenty five years of SAR in the Tucson area, we had no cases of snakebite victims who needed rescue. lots of falls, though.

The aboriginal remedy for snakebite was to find a shady, comfortable spot and sit very still and quiet for about three days. Honeybees kill more people, year in and year out, than snakes You are more likely to need a kit for anaphylactic shock than a snakebite kit.