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Show Youth suffers rattle bite near Vernal A twelve-year-old Sandy, San-dy, Utah boy was released releas-ed from the University of Utah Medical Center Sunday Sun-day after being flown there for emergency treatment. He was the victim of a rattlesnake bite near Vernal Saturday. Satur-day. According to information informa-tion received the boy, Paul Keller, 12 was camping camp-ing near Vernal Friday afternoon when bitten on the index finger. He was treated at the Duchesne County Hospital in Roosevelt and was flown by. the "AirMed" emergency helicopter to the U of U Medical Center at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning. The medical center has a special snake bite program and an emergency team was aboard the hospital helicopter to take the boy, Paul, to Salt Lake City for treatment. |