Meet the professional snake catcher – who is allergic to snake venom. Siouxsie Gillett, 49, was worked with animals all her ...

The King Cobra is probably the most famous, with a reputation for being among the deadliest snakes in Africa's spitting cobras, having toxins that can paralyze or kill a victim upon a single bite.

New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The ...

Meet the professional snake catcher - who is allergic to snake venom. Siouxsie Gillett, 49, was worked with animals all her ...

A team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are experts at collecting snake venom. But spitting cobras are a double threat. Venom has a complex evolutionary history and the reason some cobras ...

A poisonous red spitting cobra (Naja pallida) in front of a model of a toxic snake protein (orange) and a designed antitoxin protein.

But being bitten countless times by venomous snakes and spat at by spitting cobras over the years has caused her to develop anaphylaxis - a severe allergic reaction which could be fatal if she is ...

2025 has already seen the illustrious snake catcher, Cockroach Mdluli, saving not only the lives of those in the Bushbuckridge community, but also five highly dangerous snakes. Four black mambas and a ...