Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people every year, mostly in rural parts of Asia and Africa where medical care and ...

The sun was barely rising on October 25 when Rose Ntoso stepped into her field in Monkra, a peninsula community in Ghana’s ...

The answer is very likely no, even if the snake is venomous. Only about five people die per year from snakebite in America. So once the initial shock has passed, there is a better question to ask: ...

Research efforts are ongoing to develop safer, broad-spectrum antivenoms. Technology Networks sat down with Dr. Andreas ...

Treating a paralyzing snakebite could one day be as easy as sniffing a nasal spray, according to a California researcher who hopes to curb bite-related deaths that claim as many as 125,000 people ...

Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills >100,000 people and maims >400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are particularly vulnerable; ...

Indiana Jones, intrepid cinematic archaeologist, is famously afraid of snakes. Perhaps he wouldn’t need to be if he had a new ointment developed by scientists in Australia. Quickly applying a nitric ...