MORE SNAKEBITE REPORTS AFTER FLOYD 

Updated 4:18 PM ET September 27, 1999 
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 27 (UPI) Reports of snakebite are on the rise in eastern North Carolina as the creatures have been forced to seek higher ground because of flooding from Hurricane Floyd. 
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