Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Here's an article that sums things up. https://www.researchgate.net/publica...tes_in_Britain

It seems being (a) a man and (b) foolish is a risk factor for being bitten.
While I fall foul of both those criteria (as I'm frequently told by my other half!) I can't say I was minded to pick the adder up! This bloke might have been part of the article's stats

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/331194...ids-pushchair/


It seems, according to the abstract, that bee and wasp stings represent a much greater threat of fatality and they might have added ( no pun intended), that angry cows are also higher up the lists of rural hazards out to get us fell runners.