Snakebites are a silent global health crisis, claiming an estimated 138,000 fatalities annually, of which 58,000 fatalities, ...

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A serving Indian Army havildar's decision to donate his mother's organs after her death from a snake bite saved three lives, including an Army jawan and a veteran. The neurotoxic snake bite victim's ...

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of the continent. People bitten by a black mamba, a venomous snake that lives ...

People bitten by a black mamba, a venomous snake that lives in central and southern Africa, have just hours to live. The snake’s venom disrupts nerves and muscles, and eventually paralyses the lungs ...

Queensland Ambulance Service said paramedics transported the man to Nambour Hospital ‘under lights and sirens’ after he was bitten on the arm by a snake at Cooloolabin near Yandina. The patient, a man ...

When I came home from Australia for a visit last autumn, my brother and I took a road trip. Siblings in their 30s and 40s will recognise the rarity of this. He has two small children – a five-year-old ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...