Rattlesnake bites teen on southern state fishing trip

Officials executed a melodramatic rescue past week aft a teen connected a sportfishing travel was bitten by a rattlesnake "deep successful the woods" of the western North Carolina mountains.

The State Emergency Operations Center dispatched a North Carolina National Guard Black Hawk chopper to the country successful Avery County with rescue technicians from the Charlotte Fire Department.

"The hiker was successfully rescued and was receiving aesculapian attraction astatine the hospital," North Carolina Emergency Management said successful a June 5 Facebook post.

The snake wound victim, Zain Shah, thanked archetypal responders successful the comments section.

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Officials executed a melodramatic rescue past week aft a teen connected a sportfishing travel was bitten by a rattlesnake "deep successful the woods" of the occidental North Carolina mountains. (NC Emergency Management)

"Thank you each for rescuing me! I admit the antheral successful yellowish connected the acold close from erstwhile helium took maine up connected the cablegram to the helicopter. I cannot explicit my gratitude enough!" helium wrote.

Shah's father, Inman Shah, besides explained successful the comments conception that "[w]hat started arsenic a amusive end-of-high-school sportfishing trip" for his son, Zain, "and his buddy successful the WNC mountains turned deadly erstwhile helium was bitten by a timber rattlesnake heavy successful the woods."

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Victim Zain Shah thanked archetypal responders successful a June 5 Facebook comment. (NC Emergency Management)

"I'm beyond grateful for the unthinkable NCHART and Linville-Central Rescue teams, who got to them successful the mediate of obscurity and saved his life!" Inman Shah wrote. "He was air-lifted to and treated astatine Johnson City Medical Center, TN, and is present recovering astatine home. We are everlastingly successful your debt."

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The State Emergency Operations Center dispatched a North Carolina National Guard Black Hawk chopper to the country successful Avery County with rescue technicians from the Charlotte Fire Department. (NC Emergency Management)

The timber rattlesnake is simply a pit viper that is grey successful color, sometimes with a pinkish hue, with achromatic and brownish diamond-like shapes crossed its back. It besides has a stripe that runs down its back, which tin beryllium orange, yellowish oregon pinkish successful color, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. 

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The timber rattlesnake is simply a pit viper that is grey successful color, sometimes with a pinkish hue, with achromatic and brownish diamond-like shapes crossed its back. It besides has a stripe that runs down its back. (Centers for Disease Control/Edward J. Wozniak/Smith Collection/Gado)

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A timber rattlesnake volition prop itself upright and marque a rattling sound with its process erstwhile threatened – a informing that it is astir to strike. They scope successful size from astir 2.5 to 5 feet connected average.

The pit vipers tin beryllium recovered crossed the eastbound United States, with sightings ranging from Texas to Iowa to the Carolinas and northbound to Pennsylvania and New England, according to the National Zoo.