Two anti-snake venom medicine have been blacklisted by the poisons board. The poisons board has warned against purchase and usage of ‘puff udder’ and ‘Ant venom’ brands of snake bites medicine.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Rattlesnakes are always lurking in the collective imagination, here in California. But for researchers at the California Academy of Sciences, they're just one of hundreds of ...

Sixty million years after the earliest snakes figured out how to make venom in their salivary glands, descendants of the little mammals those snakes preyed on have begun to figure out just how the ...

Venomous snakes, which include cobras, vipers, and rattlesnakes, can pose a significant danger to humans. In the United States, around 7,000 – 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes per year and, ...

While pursuing therapeutic treatments, one group of scientists accidentally learned how to make snake bites more deadly. Published in Nature Communications, a recent study conducted by Ph.D. student ...

A breakthrough discovery from a team of scientists scattered around the globe might soon help prevent death from exposure to cobra venom and other snake venoms. The researchers found that a common ...

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 ...

One man did the unthinkable, and now humanity may get the cure for several snake venoms. This whole pursuit and its results have been published in the journal Cell00402-7). The man in question is a ...