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Show Fewer people killed from poison snakes Despite the fears and rumors which circulate about them, snakes do not kill as many people as some other outdoor creatures. Bees and wasps actually ac-tually are greater killers. The stings of bees, wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets take more lives than do the bites of poisonous pois-onous snakes. During the years 1950 to 1954, according to the National Office of Vital Statistics, Sta-tistics, 215 Americans succumbed succumb-ed to poisonous bites. Of these, 85 died from insect stings and 71 died from the bites of poisonous pois-onous snakes. Bees took 39 lives and 20 people lost their lives to scorpions, stingrays, and other creatures. Rattlesnakes Rattle-snakes killed 55 people and bees killed 52. In this five-year period the kill was raised in the West and South. Naturally Texas is bragging again, about taking the lead with 39 deaths followed by Georgia with 29, Caifornia 18, Florida 13, Alabama, Ala-bama, Kentucky and ' North Carolina 10 each, and Arizona with 9. In the history of Utah, very few lives have been lost because of these poisonous creatures. In the last fifteen-year fifteen-year period, not more than one or two persons have died from poisonous bites in this state. |