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 ...

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 ...

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 ...