{"id":254732,"date":"2026-07-29T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254732\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:27:17","slug":"pennsylvania-man-recovering-after-being-bitten-by-rattlesnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254732\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man recovering after being bitten by rattlesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A Pennsylvania man is on the road to recovery after a rattlesnake bit him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Mark Kline Jr. is a longtime snake handler. Earlier in July, he was on Mount Davis in Somerset County, counting the timber rattlesnake population. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">He was caught off guard, and a snake bit him on the finger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Kline was airlifted to a hospital, where he received 28 vials of antivenom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">He may still lose his finger, but Kline doesn\u2019t blame the snake for the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cHonestly, they\u2019re docile,\u201d Kline told <a href=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/somerset-county-snake-handler-recovering-weeks-after-timber-rattlesnake-bite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/somerset-county-snake-handler-recovering-weeks-after-timber-rattlesnake-bite\">NBC News affiliate WJAC.<\/a> \u201cThey really are. What happened to me is my fault. Just a snake being a snake and me being dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">If you encounter a rattlesnake while hiking, state officials say you should give it space. If you get bitten by a snake, call 911 immediately, so you can be taken to the appropriate hospital as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man is on the road to recovery after a rattlesnake bit him. Mark Kline Jr. is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,859,28,30,29,74,420,860],"class_list":["post-254732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}