The cottonmouth, or water moccasin, is often regarded as one of the most dangerous snakes in the southern United States.

Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people every year, mostly in rural parts of Asia and Africa where medical care and ...

In several areas within the Indian subcontinent, snake bites continue to be a significant public health issue; indeed, they ...

Spain hosts 14 snake species, yet only three are venomous. Experts say fear outweighs risk, as most snakes flee humans, and ...

What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Tim would know. Over the past few... A man let snakes bite him for years. He could be the key ...

Human victims of snake bites must quickly get to an emergency department to access an anti-venom that is specific to the type ...

Beheaded venomous snakes like copperheads may still bite hours after death. Snake bite cases are rising as weather warms, Triangle hospitals report. Experts advise avoiding and not handling snakes to ...

Every year, venomous snake bites kill tens of thousands of people globally, and they permanently disable several-hundred thousands more. Now a team says it has developed an antivenom cocktail that ...

A species of snake has been noted biting and injecting venom into humans after the snake is dead. Getty Images/iStock Photo As darkness descended on a man’s chicken coops in Sivasagar, India, he ...

Spain boasts a considerable number of different species of snakes, and there are 11 species found on the Iberian peninsula.