A rattlesnake bit a 46-year-old woman on March 14 in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California. The victim, identified as Gabriela Bautista, passed away five days later on March 19.
The fatality comes weeks after a 25-year-old man, Julian Hernandez, passed away from a rattlesnake bite he received while mountain biking at Quail Hill Trailhead in Orange County, California.
Experts say the record-breaking temperatures across the western U.S. this spring have made rattlesnakes more active earlier in the season…