FREER, Texas — A rattlesnake handler is dead after he was bitten during a snake showcase festival in Texas. Eugene De Leon Sr was bitten on the shoulder, while he was handling snakes in front of a ...

It took merely minutes for the paralysing symptoms to flood Billy's body after he was bitten on the wrist by a king brown snake — a formidable outback predator and Australia's largest venomous snake.

Two Kentucky emergency responders risk losing their licenses for saving a man's life with antivenom after their patient was bitten by a highly poisonous snake. Long-time snake handler James Harrison, ...

Snake envenomation statistics vary from region to region worldwide. In countries with limited or no access to antivenom, the risk of death from a venomous bite is significantly higher. Even in ...