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FLORENCE, Arizona (WJW) - A toddler is recovering in the hospital after she was bitten twice by a rattlesnake in Arizona.

Jacquelyn Reed, who lives with her family near Florence, Arizona, said the incident happened while she was walking with her young daughter, 15-month-old Cara, outside their home late last week.

"I left her side to throw a piece of trash away 50 feet away. While I was gone for less than 10 seconds, it seems the snake got her twice," she wrote on Facebook. "I came back and she was crying, I saw her foot and the snake tucked behind a propane tank against our house."

The family rushed Cara to the emergency room, where medical professionals started giving her antivenom.

"Sweet Cara was neurologically decompensating pretty qui

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