South Africa's anti-venom shortage raises alarm as nearly 4,000 snake bites occur annually, affecting not only locals but ...

Johannesburg - Millions across sub-Saharan Africa face a dire threat as South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service ...

Have you ever heard of a snake milker? This is a legitimate profession that remains largely unknown to the public. In this ...

The National Health Laboratory Service has ceased production of all snake, scorpion, and spider antivenom in South Africa due ...

Presenter: Charles Gitonga Technical Producer: Philip Bull Producers: Sunita Nahar and Nyasha Michelle in London. Blessing Aderogba in Lagos Senior Journalist: Patricia Whitehorne Editors: Andre ...

Developed at the UW Institute of Protein Design, deep learning models were used to design proteins "not found in nature" that ...

Gonkey, a four-year-old dairy goat, has been fighting for its life after being bitten by a red-bellied black snake at a wildlife park on the NSW Central Coast. The goat has been given $3,000 worth ...

An experienced South Australian snake catcher has spent a week in hospital after being bitten by a lice-infested snake he was ...

northern Ghana is snake country. He often finds himself having to give a patient several times the recommended dose of antivenoms, including one made by the Indian company Vins. The WHO threw out Vins ...

Data from a centre treating snakebite victims in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, show that many patients bitten by the saw-scaled viper ...

Less than a year after becoming India’s first State to declare snakebite envenoming cases and deaths as a notifiable disease in February 2024, Karnataka has become home to a serpentarium, the first of ...

Snakes are exclusively carnivorous, meaning that they only eat other animals — and in some cases, eggs. Their diets range ...