- A new research study claims that administering an oral drug to snakebite victims can inhibit the venom from taking hold, thus giving victims more time to seek appropriate medical care.
- Poisonous snakes can kill more than 100,000 people a year, a figure much larger than deaths resulting from the murder hornet everyone is buzzing about right now.
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If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you might have seen some concern about murder hornets, otherwise known as Asian Giant Hornets, invading the United States. While murder hornets look like the stuff nightmares are made out of, the truth is that they only kill a handful of people every year and aren’t really a threat to humans. In truth, murder hornets — which can sometimes grow to be more than 2-inches long — are dangerous because of the threat they pose to local honeybee populations, not to people.
Interestingly, though perhaps not surprisingly, snakes pose a much more dangerous threat to humans. In fact, there tend to be more snake-related deaths, on average, in a single week than bee or hornet-related deaths over the course of an entire year. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), anywhere from 80,000 to 140,000 people die every year from snake bites. Historically, one of the inherent problems with getting that number lower is that snake bites often occur out in the wild and getting proper treatment often requires a clinical setting and the intravenous administration of antivenom. A new research study, however, may provide a new treatment option to help keep snake bite victims alive until proper treatment can be given.
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