The Public Health Ministry Wednesday ordered hospitals to stock up on seven kinds of snake antivenin for rainy season after a six-year-old Surin province boy died of snake bites earlier this week.

The Toronto Zoo didn’t have anti-venom specific to the Malayan Pit Viper, but it did have vials for a related snake. “We thought it worthwhile, ...

In this Dec. 14, 2018, file photo, an African Bush Viper venomous snake is displayed for reporters at the Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ...

Now some British researchers believe they have found what they want in the venom of a Malayan pit viper, close kin to American rattlesnakes.

The zoo said Malayan pit viper antivenom was available at a zoo in Texas, but that would take about 12 hours to reach the hospital. Read More Toronto Zoo helps save woman from venomous snake bite ...

SOMETIME in the late 1970s, Professor Tan Nget Hong from the Department of Molecular Medicine in Universiti Malaya became one of the eight panellists to evaluate the needs of a snake farm for the ...

Deputy Inna Gardiner said she was bitten in Thailand on Christmas Eve, with the species identified as a Malayan Pit Viper after testing. She said she was treated in intensive care before she was ...

Of these bites, 1,136 were confirmed as from the Malayan pit viper, while 3,765 were from unknown snakes because the victims couldn’t recognise them. Another 302 bites were by various other ...

A NEW approach to anticoagulation, presented in a series of articles published in the Lancet,1 2 3 4 is based on the observation that bites by the Malayan pit viper ...

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — A woman who was bitten by a snake while on a trip to Thailand was treated in Ontario after the symptoms returned, said the reptile zoo founder who provided the antivenin. Bry ...