Woman Suffers Fatal Rattlesnake Bite In Ventura County
Enjoying the outdoors comes with the caveat that the critters living in the same areas you recreate at are a threat. And it proved to be a tragic encounter for a woman who died due to a rattlesnake bite in Ventura County’s Thousand Oaks. It’s the second such fatality in recent weeks in the Southland and one of several incidents around the same time frame. Here’s NBC 4 in Los Angeles with more:
On March 14, the Ventura County Fire Department said a 46-year-old woman was bitten by a rattlesnake at Wildwood Regional Park. She was airlifted to a hospital, where she died five days later.
The incident comes just two weeks after an Orange County man died from a rattlesnake bite he suffered while biking on the Quail Hill Trail in Irvine.
Dr. William Hayes, a biology professor at Loma Linda University who has studied rattlesnakes extensively, said peak mating season is usually in April and May.
Here’s some video via KTLA:
