A 25-year-old man died from a rattlesnake bite he got while mountain biking in Irvine, California. Julian Hernandez was riding his mountain bike at the Quail Trail Hill when he came across a rattlesnake, and it struck. Hernandez got back on his bike and tried to reach help, but the physical activity accelerated the delivery of the venom throughout his body, and he collapsed.
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Emergency personnel transported Hernandez to a hospital, where he remained for about a month while in a coma. A GoFundMe from the family was full of hope that Hernandez would recover, but, sadly, he recently died.
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Here is the Hernandez family’s GoFundMe, if you’d like to support them during this difficult time: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-julians-icu-recovery.
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