by Lancaster University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New drug combinations could protect snakebite victims from the devastating, life-changing injuries caused by toxic venom, suggests research led by Lancaster University. Existing antivenom treatments are largely ineffective against the tissue destruction caused by the cytotoxic venomous bites of a variety of different snake species, including many vipers, such...
Snakes rarely bite humans—and if they do, here’s how to deal with it. Snakes have a reputation problem. In both fiction and real life, we frequently hear about life-threatening attacks from these reptiles—but actual venomous snakebites happen far less often than you might think. RATTLESNAKE – This scaly beauty is more afraid of you than...
A University of Arizona researcher developing a therapy to prevent or delay the dangerous results of rattlesnake and other venomous snakebites in humans has shown that a combination of carbon monoxide and iron inhibits snake venom’s effects for up to an hour in animals, a major advance in bringing the treatment to market. Snake...
