First aid guidelines for snake bite include staying still. But that can be tough if you’re in a rural or remote location.
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Snake venom experts Stuart Ainsworth and Christoffer Sørensen talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the search for an antivenom that could neutralise toxins from multiple different snakes.
By reporting this new way that future antivenoms can fail, the research has highlighted a problem with current antivenom testing recommendations.
Even by conservative estimates, Mozambique’s snakebite figures are far higher than previously thought.
Over 150 types of venomous snake live in Australia. But deaths from snakebite are vanishingly rare. From snake behaviour to human innovation, here are the reasons why.
The World Health Organisation has a plan to halve deaths and disability from snakebites
Coordinated international efforts may be key to improving the life expectancy and health of many snakebite victims.
Indian-made antivenoms, common throughout Africa because they are affordable, showed little-to-no neutralisation of the African Echis venoms.
There has been at least one fatal bite from a very small brown snake in Australia. But now we know that venom is different in adult and baby brown snakes.
Don’t hold back. Performing CPR on a snakebite victim who has collapsed can save their life, however imperfect your technique.
The best cure against a snakebite is to avoid being bitten at all. Here is what you need to know about snakebites, antivenom, and what you need to do if bitten.
One way to tackle the snakebite antivenom crisis may be through biotechnological innovation to make antivenoms more cost-effective, easier to produce, and more efficacious against snakebites.
Many venoms contain bioactive components that are so stable to the body’s enzymes and selective of their biological target that they’re increasingly being used as novel research tools.
Your guide to the cocktail of deadly chemicals in animal venom.
Australian snakes are the best mouse killers in the whole world. And while that’s clearly bad news for mice, how does it translate into human risk?
There are more than 45,000 species of spider, but only a handful are potentially dangerous to humans.
Most people avoid venomous creatures, but they can also teach us a lot about chemical reactions that take place outside of the body - or exochemistry.
Australia is world famous for its venomous critters, including its many highly venomous snakes. The snake that holds the popular title of “world’s most venomous” is the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus…
Media reports about the redback spider antivenom being ineffective caused a bit of a stir recently. The articles were based on research presented at a major toxinology conference in Dubai. To understand…
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Professor & Center Director at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark
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Research Fellow and Co-head, Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Toxinologist; Senior Research Fellow, Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne
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