fer-de-lance

The week before we arrived his son was bitten on the foot by a venomous fer-de-lance pit viper in the nearby forest.

Unless it is a fer-de-lance, or bothrops asper, a nasty pit viper found in Central and South America.

The fer-de-lance, for instance, was once considered just another deadly South American viper.

And there are chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes, and venomous fer-de-lance snakes.

One of the deadliest snakes in Mexico, a tawny fer-de-lance, was slithering by his head, 30 centimeters away.