The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine announced that a drug called varespladib could be repurposed to treat spitting cobra bites. Standard antivenom treatments are ineffective at handling the ...

Currently, there is no effective treatment for tackling severe local envenoming caused by spitting cobra venom. Existing antivenoms only work on bites by other snake species and are often ...

King cobra and spitting cobra are highly venomous snakes with different venom delivery methods and behaviors. King cobra, the longest venomous snake, uses powerful bites to kill prey, while ...

But the herpetologists (reptile and amphibian experts) and scientists face an extra challenge when it comes to collecting spitting cobra venom. These snakes are a double threat. Not only can they ...

The spitting cobra bites its prey so it is paralysed when the cobra eats it. But it also spits. If that lands in your eye it can cause blindness and horrible pain. That venom is now by definition a ...

Antivenom shortages persist, but a WHO-approved alternative is now available in both in private and state hospitals in South Africa.