2-Year-Old Girl Bitten by Copperhead Snake at Texas Daycare Airlifted to Children’s Hospital, Survives

2-Year-Old Girl Bitten by Copperhead Snake at Texas Daycare Airlifted to Children’s Hospital, Survives
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From the archives: This story was last updated in September 2019.
Daycare is a place that many parents entrust to mind their kids during their busy work schedules. But as mindful as some daycare attendants might be, some dangers are easily overlooked, particularly in the playground in the Texas outdoors.

At Rainbow’s Promise Daycare in Granbury, Texas, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth, 2-year-old Kiley Cook encountered a copperhead rattlesnake hidden in the gravel in the playground area. She was bitten on the finger. Luckily, her mom, Nataly Cook, was right next door working with a different group of children at the same daycare.