A California hospital ran out of antivenom after an Idaho man, bitten twice by a rattlesnake, needed 54 doses to survive.
Chris Howarth, from Meridian, Idaho, was inspecting the waterline at his parents’ house in Oroville, California, when the snake attacked him. Believing he had stepped on something sharp, he looked down and spotted the rattlesnake.
He was bitten by the snake twice on his lower right leg, with one of the bites striking a vein and sending the venom directly into his bloodstream…