Imagine walking into tall grass or working barefoot in a field … and suddenly feeling sharp pain on your foot. You’ve just been bitten by a snake. This is more than a moment of shock; it could be the ...

The Himachal Pradesh government has declared snakebite envenomation (poisoning) a notifiable disease in the state in consonance with the National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite ...

Himachal Pradesh has declared snakebite envenomation a notifiable disease in line with the National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite Envenoming by 2030. This initiative aims to ...

Snake envenomation statistics vary from region to region worldwide. In countries with limited or no access to antivenom, the risk of death from a venomous bite is significantly higher. Even in ...

Noon Makor Arop has been working with MSF since 2019, but became a snakebite patient in 2021. Since then, he has been ...

Medical specialists warn that the high cost and limited availability of antivenom, the only World Health Organisation-approved treatment for snakebite envenoming, are driving preventable deaths and ...

Scientists at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have co-developed the world’s first product-ready, lab-produced, recombinant snakebite antivenom that protects against many of Africa’s most ...

Bengaluru: Karnataka Friday became the first state in India to launch a state action plan for prevention and control of ...