NIXA, MO -- A Missouri man died in his sleep just hours after he was bitten by a snake and refused to seek medical attention. Snake bites are pretty rare, and it's even more rare to have a fatality.

A Tennessee hiker died after he was bitten by a timber rattlesnake, according to ABC. The hiker picked up the snake while walking on a trail and was bitten on the hand. He died shortly after being ...

A coroner in Australia has ruled that a boy who died in 2021 would have likely survived if the snake bite he received had been medically treated. Instead, the boy’s father thought the 11-year-old had ...

An 11-year-old boy who was bitten by a snake in Australia died after his father said to "sleep it off," according to legal findings released in the death case. Tristian Jaemes Frahm suffered ...

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. (AP) — A man in Florida says his family's 8-month-old pit bull Zeus died of snake bites as it was trying to protect his sons. Gary Richardson told WOFL-TV the boys were outside the ...

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation,” died Saturday after being bitten by a snake.

Nagpur: At least 17 people lost their lives due to snake bites in Nagpur district in 2025, while 186 snake bite cases were ...