NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — A teenager showed us his swollen leg after a snake bit him. He had been alone when it happened and it had taken him hours to get a doctor.
The teenager had been in the woods during an junior ROTC training event.
Doctors said it was good that he got help when he did.
Jarquin spends lots of time in the woods, as part of his training. Recently, he thought he ran into a bee.
"The pain that I felt was just very different than what I felt before," said Harold Jarquin, 17.
"I know what those stings feel like, so at first I thought it was a yellow jacket, but then since the pain increased, I said, "No, something is wrong,'" he said.
He had been bitten by a copperhead snake in Newton County.
"My leg was big and I saw two holes. One was bleeding, one was really not. Later on that day the pain was just increasing, increasing," he said.
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