A brush with death is a hard way to learn how to survive a cottonmouth moccasin snake bite. Here’s what you need to know to ...

A British woman has spoken about how she ended up in intensive care from a snake bite in Cyprus. Sam West was meditating when she was bitten on the leg by the 5ft blunt-nosed viper while ...

A tough and quick-thinking Queenslander has one of the greatest stories of suvival you could ever tell. The 26 year old was ...

Ian Jackson was 80 kilometres away from the nearest medical clinic when he was bitten by one of the world's deadliest snakes.

They must literally chew on their victim to inject their venom fully, so most bites to humans don't result in death. In fact, no deaths from coral snake bites have been reported in the U.S. since ...

And death. As to the fer de lance, well, you get the idea. Whatever the assailant, though, snake-bite treatment has been the same for a century: inject an antivenin containing antibodies produced ...

The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) says officers treated six bites during a 12-hour period this week. A QAS spokesperson said the organisation had seen a steady increase in reported snake ...