About 4 000 people are bitten by snakes annually but only a quarter of those being admitted to hospital and only 10% require antivenom

The country is facing a critical shortage of antivenom to treat the victims of snake bites

A well-tailored punt gets a pleb out of Brixton in Johannesburg and shows him the sights, smells and tastes of the various larney silos in Cape Town

A shortage of snake antivenom in Africa is a "shameful failure"

The young woman in the northern province of Shaanxi died eight days after being bitten by the many-banded krait

Snakes tend to arouse sharp fear in monkeys, apes and humans; scientists now say they have found specific brain cells that fire off a rapid warning.

An elderly woman from Mokopane is in a critical condition after being bitten by a snake she was trying to chase off with a can of insecticide.

A Pretoria couple drove 170km from the Kruger National Park with a Mozambique spitting cobra in their car, according to a media report on Wednesday.