venom

We have all heard about the flesh eating bacteria and we have all heard about snake bite. This is some pretty exciting news linking the two. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide get strep infections and this new published research has revealed that a toxin in snake venom which necrotizes...

I recently heard a snake expert-handler pooh-pooh the myth of stun-guns, cattle-prods, and batteries being effective treatments for North American Pit Viper venom (rattlesnake, copperhead, and water-moccasin). These deliver, AIUI, a hemolytic protein containing Copper, and folklore has it that...