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 ...

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.

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.

Study: Molecular dissection of cobra venom highlights heparinoids as an antidote for spitting cobra envenoming.Image Credit: Mufti Adi Utomo/Shutterstock.com. Background. A significant portion of ...

Du, T. et al, ‘Molecular dissection of cobra venom highlights heparinoids as an effective snakebite antidote’. (Science Translational Medicine, 2024) DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adk4802. DECLARATION ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...