North Carolina doctors frequently see copperhead bites. Treatment depends on the severity of the bite.

Mayor Robert Burns of Monroe, North Carolina, shares his wife's frightening copperhead snake bite and encourages people to be ...

"If you're enjoying the outdoors, odds are you've probably come across a rattlesnake and didn't even know it." ...

A herpetologist handles an African puff adder during an extraction of its venom to be used in research for the local production of antivenom at the Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre.

When we finally reached a village, we found a local doctor who looked at the state of my bloody hand with concern. He asked ...