Typically manufactured from animal blood plasma, the antidotes often remain expensive, inconsistent, and difficult to scale ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite ...

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...

A groundbreaking nanobody-based antivenom offers new hope against deadly snakebites. Developed by Danish scientists, this ...

Snake venom contains many proteins that damage the body, though key toxic sites often remain similar across species.

New broad-spectrum antivenom, made up of just eight nanobodies to counter venom from diverse sub-Saharan African snake ...

Africa's deadliest snakes, the boomslang and black mamba, showcase stark contrasts. While the boomslang, a tree-dweller with slow-acting hemotoxic venom, hunts by ambush, the ground-dwelling black ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

THE indigenous fauna of South Africa was, a century ago, richer in genera and species than that in any other part of the globe. To-day the mammals have largely disappeared, — ruthlessly obliterated, — ...

A snake catcher has told of how he and his colleagues found two highly venomous black mamba snakes at the same property in South Africa, apparently on the hunt for a mate. Nick Evans, a reptile ...