By the time Kamidikolo made it to hospital, snake venom had already started breaking down his skin and muscle. The flesh ...

Less than a year after becoming India’s first State to declare snakebite envenoming cases and deaths as a notifiable disease ...

Explore the world's deadliest snakes, including the North America's Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, South America's ...

Venomous snakes such as Western Taipan and Saw-Scaled Viper injects toxins with each bite, causing fatalities.

Most snake bites occur at home during activities like gardening or taking out trash, and most people don't hear the rattle before they strike.

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

An Adelaide snake-catcher has made a career-first find — a red-bellied black snake baked to death in heatwave conditions this ...

The snake bit his leg ... Don’t apply a tourniquet. Restricting the blood flow can concentrate venom in a limb so that it damages tissues there more quickly. It can also cause the heart to ...

Ian Jackson was 80 kilometres away from the nearest medical clinic when he was bitten by one of the world's deadliest snakes.

These are some of the most lethal types of snake venom as they evade the immune system ... the snakes and continually harvest the animals’ blood to get just a tiny amount of effective antibodies ...