Hiker who died after being bitten by venomous snake in Tennessee made fatal mistake, officials believe - The man died in a ...

A hiker suffered a fatal snake bite in Tennessee after picking up a Timber rattlesnake near the beginning of a trail in ...

GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVC) — A hiker at Savage Gulf State Park in Grundy County was bitten by a snake on the trail and ...

Witnesses told officials that the man picked up what is believed to be a timber rattlesnake before it bit him.

A hiker is dead after he was bitten on the hand while picking up a rattlesnake on a trail at the Savage Gulf State Park in ...

About five people die from venomous snake bites each year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease ...

The unidentified male hiker, who was in Tennessee’s Savage Gulf State Park on Aug. 8, picked up what was likely a Timber rattlesnake, which has “venom potent enough to kill a human,” but whose “bites ...

That’s a lesson that a Tennessee man learned this week in a tragic way after a timber rattlesnake that he picked up bit him, eventually leading to his death, according to local officials. A ...

Park rangers said they received a distress call Friday afternoon and found the man suffering from a venomous snake bite.

A man died in Tennessee after getting bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking at a state park, local authorities said. Emergency ...

A man has died after he was bitten by a venomous snake at a Tennessee state park, according to park officials.

A hiker in a Tennessee state park died after picking up a rattlesnake that bit him in what was a rare fatality arising from a snake bite, authorities said Friday.