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

Every year, about 7,000 people die and 10,000 require amputations annually in sub-Saharan Africa. A new, broad-spectrum ...

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.

Scientists have co-developed the world’s first product-ready, lab-produced, recombinant snakebite antivenom that protects ...

Learn about the Black Mamba, Africa’s deadliest snake. Discover its speed, venom, habitat, and role in the ecosystem.

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

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

From the deserts of Africa to the forests of Asia, meet the seven deadliest snakes that dominate each continent—except ...

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, — ...