Arizona poison-control officials are warning residents about the recent surge in rattlesnake bites that may push one of the state’s two centers to a new monthly high.

More than 6,000 poisonous snake bites occur each year in the United States
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RETANK: A Larimer County man has been released from the hospital after being bitten by a rattlesnake while mountain biking in the Devil's Backbone Open Space area last week.