NAGS HEAD, Va. (WAVY) — A Dare Country EMT is recovering after being bitten by a venomous snake last weekend.

Ethan White told 10 On Your Side he was walking his dog with his fiancée on a trail in Nags Head Woods Preserve last Saturday morning when it happened.

"I like, kind of went off the trail to tie my shoe, and I bent over and never saw it until I was bitten on the hand, and I kind of like, staggered backwards," White said. “It's kind of like when you cut yourself with a sharp knife. You don't notice it, [then] it'll start throbbing later.”

White snapped a picture of the snake, which doctors believe is a cottonmouth.

His fiancée rushed him over to the nearby hospital, where a long road to recovery officially began. He said he initially had an allergic reaction to the type of antiv

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