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VSP rush anti-venom to Richmond to treat man bitten by pet viper

The Richmond Times Dispatch is reporting: The Virginia State Police on Sunday ensured that an anti-venom treatment was rushed to VCU Health to use on a man who was bitten by his own pet, an African pit viper.

The Virginia State Police said in a statement that it helped deliver anti-venom treatment from the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach to Richmond’s VCU Health to treat the man, whose name and locality of residence were not immediately disclosed.

The man was bitten overnight and already had received an initial dose of anti-venom from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

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African Bush Viper, Atheris squamigera, coiled around a tree branch; native to Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa Controlled situation.

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