Everyone's heard that there are no snakes in Ireland. That's entirely true, but there is a very deadly snake that lives in Britain, the British adder. The thing about the British adder is that it's pretty for a snake, and also that it absolutely has no inkling why anyone would bother it so much as to cause it to feel as though it's deadly bite were in order for self preservation. The British adder is unlike other adders - as most adders are very aggressive.

Think of the American coral snake as a kindred slithering spirit to the British adder. Neither one of those snakes ever want to bite you, oh human, and both of them are rather colourful.

Coral snakes inhabit places that humans do not, and besides that, they want you to leave whilst at the same time preferring to leave themselves first when they see you. Coral snakes truly hope that you get the idea, and leave the area too. There are typically under twenty coral snake bites in the USA per year. These snakes are small compared to pit vipers, and their fangs are also small. The coral snake can't pierce the jeans of persons dumb enough to get bit by one very often, but if they do pierce the skin of someone, it's not very painful - but this is deceptive, as you will almost certainly be dying and dead in only an hour or so. Respiratory failure will be your ticket out of this world for playing with a coral snake, and due to the Food and Drug Administration caring so very little for your life, there is currently NO MORE ANTI VENOM in the USA for treating a coral snake bite. Do you believe that? It's true.

You see, the coral snake is NOT a pit viper, so the Cro Fab anti venom that will save the life of a person bit by a rattlesnake or a water moccasin will not work for coral snake bites. The pit viper bite is extremely painful, and that was your first clue that they were different toxins, except that we've already discussed how the coral snake is not a pit viper. If a coral snake bites you in the Americas, you're just dead, get over it, you've about one to two hours to say your prayers, or otherwise do what you need to do.