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Friendly Denton County Spider-Man recovering after near-fatal snake bites

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Friendly Denton County Spider-Man recovering after near-fatal snake bites
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A Denton County man who dresses up as Spider-Man to cheer up children at hospitals suffered near-fatal bites from a venomous snake this week, and is still recovering in a Fort Worth ICU.Denton County's Spider-Man46-year-old Jeremy Sons is known to many as Denton County's very own Spider-Man.In 2020, Sons began dressing up as the web-slinging comic book hero to cheer up children during the COVID-19 pandemic. He's continued the role, cheering up sick children in hospitals in his spare time.After the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, Sons organized a toy drive to send them to children in Uvalde.When not "fighting crime", Sons and his wife run the nonprofit Clear Creek Adventure Ranch. The Sanger facility tends to rescue animals.Spider-Man gets snake-bittenEarlier this week, Sons and his wife were on their property searching for animals when Sons was bitten twice by a venomous cottonmouth snake.Sons tells FOX 4's Alex Boyer he was reaching under a log when the bites happened. "I pulled the snak

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