Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California, exposed himself to the venom of snakes over the course of nearly 18 ...

Backed by the Department of Defense, Ophirex is developing the first oral snakebite treatment, making on-the-ground treatment possible for the first time.

In the heat of a Tucson summer, it’s not just grasshoppers that are hissing. Blended into the desert sand, hidden around rocks and shrubs, there can also be the rattle of a diamondback snake.

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have completed a Phase I clinical trial for a new oral treatment for snakebite. The study, conducted by researchers from the Center for ...

Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times with the venom of some of the world’s deadliest snakes, including cobras, mambas and ...

Bites from venomous snakes can be a death sentence, but not if antivenom is administered shortly afterward. Yet the first comprehensive study in Florida on the chronology, treatments, and outcomes of ...

A California toddler’s encounter with a venomous rattlesnake turned out to be plenty costly for his family. Though the boy was successfully treated with antivenom, the lifesaving medication originally ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking new snakebite treatment to prevent the devastating tissue damage caused by African spitting cobra venom. Spitting cobra venom is incredibly potent and ...

They said the venom from certain species -including the black mamba and forest cobra - was only partially neutralized. They say that shows that both the composition of the venom and the timing of ...

MWINGI, Kenya (AP) — Esther Kangali felt a sharp pain while on her mother’s farm in eastern Kenya. She looked down and saw a large snake coiling around her left leg. She screamed, and her mother came ...