A man from Texas nearly died after being bitten by a decapitated snake head

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• A Texan man was told by doctors he might not live after being bitten by a severed rattlesnake head.
• The man required 26 vials of antivenom to combat the poison.
• He is now in a stable condition.
• An anti-venom doctor told Gizmodo that snake's heads can continue to function hours after being cut off.

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If you thought cutting the head off a venomous snake made them safe to handle, think again.

A man from Texas received a potentially fatal dose of venom after being bitten by the head of a rattlesnake — even though he'd just decapitated it.

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