A Pennsylvania woman was on her way to do laundry when she encountered a surprise guest in her basement, police say.
Judy Reed descended the stairs of her Mount Penn home Tuesday morning to clean some clothes. A copperhead snake was there, and the 2-foot-long adolescent reptile bit her on the left arm above the elbow.Reed quickly called 911 and was transported to the hospital. When police arrived, they contacted the state Fish and Boat Commission, which trapped the snake in a bag and relocated it to a safe spot outdoors, Detective Sgt. Deron Manndel of the Central Berks Regional Police Department told CNN.
Copperhead venom is not potent, according to the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.Read More" are venomous, but it's very rare that a bite from a copperhead is fatal unless you don't get treatment right away," Manndel said."But she went right to the hospital."Manndel said copperheads are pretty common around the area. The snakes live throughout the Eastern and central United States.
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