{"id":220092,"date":"2025-08-14T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-antidote-for-cobra-bites-discovered-by-liverpool-and-sydney-researchers"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:03:07","slug":"new-antidote-for-cobra-bites-discovered-by-liverpool-and-sydney-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-antidote-for-cobra-bites-discovered-by-liverpool-and-sydney-researchers","title":{"rendered":"New antidote for cobra bites discovered by Liverpool and Sydney researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-antidote-for-cobra-bites-discovered-by-liverpool-and-sydney-researchers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cobras kill thousands of people a year worldwide and perhaps a hundred thousand more are seriously maimed by necrosis \u2013 the death of body tissue and cells \u2013 caused by the venom, which can lead to amputation.<\/p>\n<p>Current antivenom treatment is expensive and does not effectively treat the necrosis of the flesh where the bite occurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur discovery could drastically reduce the terrible injuries from necrosis caused by cobra bites \u2013 and it might also slow the venom, which could improve survival rates,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/n_NNCXrvliMODEWI6gWTi?domain=link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com\">Professor Greg Neely<\/a>, a corresponding author of the study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/sXSSCYywmf6ApVwtGza6O?domain=link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com\">Charles Perkins Centre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/d5nTCZzxnioQ8K0sKOfdE?domain=link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com\">Faculty of Science<\/a> at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobras kill thousands of people a year worldwide and perhaps a hundred thousand more are seriously maimed by necrosis \u2013 the death of body tissue and cells \u2013 caused by the venom, which can lead to amputation. Current antivenom treatment is expensive and does not effectively treat the necrosis of the flesh where the bite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}