S cientists at the University of Sydney and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have discovered that a commonly used blood thinner, heparin, can be repurposed as an antidote for cobra venom.

A breakthrough from an international research team has produced a cheap new antidote to deadly cobra venom using a surprising source—a commonplace blood thinner.. Cobras aren’t technically the ...

The faster the Heparin shot, the better this cobra venom cure would work. Human trials must be successful before Heparin-type drugs can be used worldwide as a cobra venom antidote.

Nubian spitting cobra (Naja nubiae) slow motion spitting venom. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London and Callum. Ph.D. student and lead author, Tian Du, also from the ...

Unlike current antivenoms for cobra bites, which are 19th century technologies, the heparinoid drugs act as a 'decoy' antidote. By flooding the bite site with 'decoy' heparin sulfate or related ...

The King Cobra, the world's longest venomous snake, earns its regal title through its unique diet of other snakes, potent ...

On average, snakes bite 1.8 million people worldwide each year, and 138,000 of those are fatal. Researchers have now found a new treatment for at least cobra bites — a common blood thinner ...

Animals frequently growl to display dominance, show aggression, and warn others to stay away. When we think of animals that ...

THE usefulness of cobra venom for the control of pain was first suggested in 1929 by Monaelesser.1 In 1936, Bullrich2 reported favorable results in the treatment of angina pectoris. Seven patients ...

The researchers found that, unlike current antivenoms for cobra bites, which are 19th century technologies, the heparin drugs (herparinoids) act as a decoy antidote.

Key Background. The WHO declared envenoming as a neglected tropical disease in 2017, and set a goal to reduce the global burden of snake bites by 50% by 2030. The WHO lists many cobra species as ...