Hissstory: how the science of snake bite treatments has changed

By Peter Hobbins
Updated June 28 2018 - 1:33pm, first published February 13 2017 - 12:00am
Gone are the days when we were told to suck out a snake’s venom. So what’s the current treatment and how have treatments changed over time?
Gone are the days when we were told to suck out a snake’s venom. So what’s the current treatment and how have treatments changed over time?

SUMMER is traditionally Australia’s snake bite season, when both snakes and people become more active. The human death toll is now admirably low, but it wasn’t always so.

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