A woman in the Free State was bitten by a puff adder at night. Online users were worried after seeing the sizeable snake and ...

[ESWATINI] In the village of Siphocosini, Eswatini, Clement Tsabedze still remembers the moment that nearly took his life. After being bitten by a black mamba—one of the most feared and venomous ...

Bizarre’ mutant death adder with three sharp fangs stuns experts in Australia - Snake produces ‘massive yields’ of venom ...

A death adder at an Australian wildlife park found to have three extremely rare fangs that all produce deadly neurotoxic ...

The centre is home to about 150 of the world’s deadliest snakes, whose venom is regularly extracted through “milking”.

The National Health Laboratory Services revealed this week that antivenom supplies for snake, scorpion and spider bites have run out, with only boomslang antivenom still available. "We're ...

puff adders and stiletto snakes. “What you must also remember is every patient that goes to a hospital with a snake bite does not get antivenom. Only 1 out of 10 get antivenom, the others don't ...

Adders can bite both people and inquisitive dogs. In humans, adder bites can be painful and cause swelling, but are usually not life-threatening. However, you should seek medical attention ...

WHAT if one antivenom could work for all snake bites? Scientists may be getting there. More than 80,000 people die from snake bites each year and about three times that number suffer permanent ...

While there are 13 recorded deaths from their bites, no one is thought to have died since the development of antivenom in the 1980s, according to the University of Melbourne’s School of ...