Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
The high-stakes quest to make snakebites survivable took leaps forward this year, with promising new avenues to safer antivenoms
Neville Wolmarans knows the dangers of snake venom all too well. He vividly recalls his first black mamba bite, in 1971. With ...
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Venom-proof man’s antibodies spark universal antivenom breakthrough
Snakebite envenoming kills over 100,000 people each year and leaves hundreds of thousands more with permanent disabilities.
In sub-Saharan Africa, snake bites are a major problem, and better antivenom treatments are required to prevent deaths and injuries. Writing in Nature, Ahmadi et al. 1 present a therapy that targets ...
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