the antivenom drug protected the rodents completely from 13 snake species, and partially protected them from a further six.

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...

Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous ...

Slowly, Tim moves the snake’s head towards his outstretched left arm – until it delivers a single bite. Without even flinching, he then puts it back and fishes out a smaller but even more ...

Over the years, he has withstood more than 200 actual snake bites and over 700 injections, enduring a near-fatal coma in the process. What began as an effort to protect himself while handling ...

The bite from the Jameson's mamba snake sent Jim Harrison of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo to the ICU Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.