{"id":237512,"date":"2026-03-26T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:11:11","slug":"rattlesnake-bite-kills-woman-on-popular-california-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237512\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Bite Kills Woman on Popular California Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Hikers in a popular park in southern California&#8217;s Ventura County are being warned to be on alert after a local woman died following a rattlesnake bite, <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/ventura-county\/woman-46-killed-by-rattlesnake-bite-on-ventura-county-hiking-trail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTLA<\/a> reports. Authorities say 46-year-old Gabriela Bautista of Moorpark was hiking at Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks around midday on March 14 when she was bitten. She was airlifted to a nearby hospital but died five days later from rattlesnake venom toxicity, according to the Ventura County Medical Examiner.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Ventura County fire officials say the area has seen an unusual spike in rattlesnake activity: four reported bites since March 14, compared to nine in all of last year. &#8220;With the warm forecast over the next couple of weeks, I think they&#8217;re going to be pretty active,&#8221; one expert says. Bautista&#8217;s bite was the first of two in the area in a week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/story\/news\/special-reports\/outdoors\/2026\/03\/25\/rattlesnake-bites-ventura-county-kills-one\/89309502007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z118832p119850l115450c119850e008200v118832d--78--b--78--&amp;gca-ft=146&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ventura County Star<\/a> reports: A teenage cyclist who fell off her bike and was bitten March 20 survived after receiving antivenom, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toacorn.com\/articles\/rattlesnake-bite-leads-to-death-of-46-year-old-woman-in-thousand-oaks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thousand Oaks Acorn<\/a> reports. A 25-year-old man in Orange County died earlier this month after a February bite. Wildlife experts urge people to give snakes space on trails. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/niosh\/outdoor-workers\/about\/venomous-snakes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a> reports that 7,000-8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes annually; around five die.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Hikers in a popular park in southern California&#8217;s Ventura County are being warned to be on alert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2969,7,9,8,84394,31939,1226],"class_list":["post-237512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-calif","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-rattlesnake","tag-thousand-oaks","tag-ventura-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}