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Related: About this forumAlabama man dies 3 days after copperhead snake bite at Smith Lake
Alabama man dies 3 days after copperhead snake bite at Smith Lake
Updated May 30, 2019; Posted May 28, 2019
By Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com
A Tuscaloosa husband, father, son and brother died Monday, three days after he was bitten by a copperhead snake at the familys Smith Lake home. ... Oliver Chum Baker, 52, was pronounced dead at a Huntsville hospital. He leaves behind a large, close-knit family including his wife, Marilou Briney Baker, and sons Charlie, who just graduated from high school, and 12-year-old Walden. Baker grew up in the Birmingham area.
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The family had gathered at the lake home for the long holiday weekend. Baker was outside on the stone patio walking his new lab puppy when he alerted family members that he had been bitten by a copperhead. The snake was still coiled up outside the back door.
Within minutes, Baker fell unconscious. A relative gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until paramedics arrived. They drove to a nearby school so that he could be airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, but he was not stable enough to fly.
The paramedics then took him by ambulance to a Jasper hospital, and eventually he was airlifted to Huntsville. Family said Baker suffered a severe allergic reaction to the snakes venom which caused anaphylactic shock and ultimately cardiac arrest. Baker never regained consciousness.
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Updated May 30, 2019; Posted May 28, 2019
By Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com
A Tuscaloosa husband, father, son and brother died Monday, three days after he was bitten by a copperhead snake at the familys Smith Lake home. ... Oliver Chum Baker, 52, was pronounced dead at a Huntsville hospital. He leaves behind a large, close-knit family including his wife, Marilou Briney Baker, and sons Charlie, who just graduated from high school, and 12-year-old Walden. Baker grew up in the Birmingham area.
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The family had gathered at the lake home for the long holiday weekend. Baker was outside on the stone patio walking his new lab puppy when he alerted family members that he had been bitten by a copperhead. The snake was still coiled up outside the back door.
Within minutes, Baker fell unconscious. A relative gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until paramedics arrived. They drove to a nearby school so that he could be airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, but he was not stable enough to fly.
The paramedics then took him by ambulance to a Jasper hospital, and eventually he was airlifted to Huntsville. Family said Baker suffered a severe allergic reaction to the snakes venom which caused anaphylactic shock and ultimately cardiac arrest. Baker never regained consciousness.
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Alabama man dies 3 days after copperhead snake bite at Smith Lake (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2019
OP
Copperheads not normally so deadly, but it can happen. Similar to a ultramarathon runner/biker
hlthe2b
Jun 2019
#1
It was anaphylactic shock from the copperhead . Bees can kill from anaphylactic shock .
stonecutter357
Jun 2019
#4
hlthe2b
(102,200 posts)1. Copperheads not normally so deadly, but it can happen. Similar to a ultramarathon runner/biker
in Colorado last year after a timber rattlesnake bite... Young, healthy, and appeared to have gotten appropriate care (despite a short delay getting him off a trail), but still fatal.
SWBTATTReg
(22,100 posts)2. Wow. What a tragedy...my heart goes out to the family...nt
Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)3. Gosh, I didn't believe copperheads were deadly.
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)4. It was anaphylactic shock from the copperhead . Bees can kill from anaphylactic shock .
Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)5. Wow, after a first exposure?
I know it can happen, although we were taught it's very, very rare after just one exposure to the allergen. I wonder if the poor guy had been snake-bitten before. Yikes.