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How does a sneak put venom in your body?
Question Date: 2014-01-17
Answer 1:

Snakes bite and make puncture wounds with their fangs. Most snakes aren't poisonous, so there is no venom in their bites.

Poisonous snakes can put venom into the body of the person they bite - or not. Sometimes they don't want to waste their valuable venom. Some kinds of snakes usually put venom into the body they bite. Other kinds of snakes usually don't put venom into the body they bite.

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