Luckily, bites by shy coral snakes account for fewer than 1 percent of U.S. snakebites, and antivenin is not always needed. Only one human coral snake death has been reported in the more than 40 ...

Pfizer, which bought Wyeth in 2009, ... There, small doses are injected into horses, and the antibodies produced by the horses are used to make antivenin. Although coral-snake bites are rare, ...

The initial production of antivenin (the clinical term for anti-venom) for treating coral snake bites is the function of an 11,500-square-foot facility Pfizer is building near the center of the ...

Snake bite but no antidote for dog, and dwindling supply for humans Fortunately, doctors say, coral snake bites are not common and antivenin is rarely used.

Pfizer Inc. says it is making major investments in its animal health operations in Kalamazoo County's Richland Township. First the pharma giant announced a $6 million, 24,000-square foot research ...

For the past five decades, coral snake bites have been treated primarily with an antivenin produced by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. But the company, which was acquired by Pfizer in 2009, stopped ...

Pfizer makes the only FDA-approved coral snake anti-venom and they are running out. The company shutdown it's plant in 2003. Now the FDA says the last vials will expire in just five months ...

FLORENCE, Texas (KXAN) — “Red and yellow kill a fellow. Red and black, friend of Jack.” It didn’t take Terri Green more than a split second to identify the deadly coral snake that bit her ...

Pfizer makes the only FDA-approved coral snake anti-venom and they are running out. The company shutdown it's plant in 2003. Now the FDA says the last vials will expire in just five months ...

Pfizer Inc., which bought Wyeth last year, has no plans to start making North American Coral Snake Antivenin again. A Mexican drug manufacturer, Instituto Bioclon, ...

As venomous snakes go, the coral snake is a clumsy biter. Unlike pit vipers such as rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, which have gruesomely efficient fangs that articulate forward during a strike and ...

DELAND - Carl Barden knows what to do when a venomous snake bares its fangs. He's been bitten 11 times, and he understands that anti-venom can save a person's life. "I am living proof it works li… ...