Robb,<br><br><br>I'll take a copperhead bite any day. <br><br>A friend of mine is a herpetologist. We were looking for snakes, lifting plywood sheets up to find them....you know, stuff that you shouldn't do if you want to avoid snakebite. I was careless about where I put my hand, and wham, snakebite. It was a copperhead. I asked him if I should go to the hospital. He looked at the wound, shook his head and said, "For this? Nah. You'll be fine." He was right. The bite site hurt, swoll up, and nothing..... The snake may not have envenomated, although he made a good strike, and had opportunity to. <br><br>This same friend was bitten by a widow once and had to be hospitalized. I'll taken the copperhead bite anyday. <br><br>FYI, my herpetologist friend tells me that researchers have found eastern diamondbacks recently that have venom with neurotoxic properties, in addition to the regular hemotoxic stuff. <br><br>Take care,<br><br>Andy