The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is helping scientists create better antivenom drugs for snakebites. By combing ...

After years of self-administering jerry-rigged antivenom and getting outright bitten by snakes, Tim Friede has a "hyper-immunity" against venomous snakes. Could his blood now hold the key to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South America’s Fer-De-Lance carries a potent hemotoxic venom. Theeastern brown snake is Australia’s deadliest due to human ...

Snakes are found in nearly every environment on Earth, and many possess venom powerful enough to kill humans. In this ...

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There are things we take for granted which, if we peer behind the curtain, reveal themselves to be almost unbelievable. Take, for example, the existence of antivenom. Any animal bite is a bad time, ...

From rubber tappers in Liberia to sugar cane farmers in South Africa, bites from venomous snakes are a constant worry. 1 In sub-Saharan Africa—which is home to green and black mambas, spitting cobras, ...

For nearly two decades, an American mechanic turned self-taught snake expert has done something that sounds suicidal at first glance: he has let some of the world’s deadliest snakes bite him and has ...

South America’s Fer-De-Lance carries a potent hemotoxic venom. Theeastern brown snake is Australia’s deadliest due to human proximity, as it bites many people every year. The puff adder is the ...