Doctors said the patient is lucky he received anti-venom treatment when he did because the snake that bit him, a water moccasin, was poisonous. Maldonado was doing yard work at the Windsor at Miramar complex when he was bitten on his left hand by the reptile, Thursday afternoon. “I thought it was a splinter until I saw the blood.”When he saw the water moccasin, he took out the machete and killed it so he could know what type of snake bit him. “He picked his gardening tool back up and then attacked the snake and killed the snake in the process,” said said Dr. Alex Morizio at Palmetto General Hospital. Maldonado then took photographs of the snake, so he could have evidence of the snake that bit him, just in case it was poisonous.

Source: Fox News April 22, 2017 17:58 UTC