Snakebites are among the deadliest neglected tropical diseases, and scientists have long been searching for more effective ...

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

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

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

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

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

Made up of five smaller townships, Snake Park is home to about 5,000 properties built under South Africa's Reconstruction and ...

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 ...

Not just snake oil. Scientists may have developed a snake bite antivenom that can be used for 17 different species of snakes, according to a study published in the journal Nature.

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

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, — ...