Acute myasthenic syndrome following coral snake envenomation in the Caribbean: a harbinger for admission to the intensive care unit.

A 25-year-old Afro-Caribbean woman was bitten by a snake in her right inner thigh while in a forest reserve in Trinidad and Tobago. As an ardent nature lover and animal rights activist, she had entered the rainforest with companions to release a wounded owl that had been rehabilitated. The snake was