Known in PNG as the “snake man”, the Australian reptile handler-turned-scientist ventures where others fear to tread – literally. Every year, the Papuan Taipan kills up to 1,000 people in ...

potent antivenom to one of the world's most lethal snakes, the Papuan taipan can be produced for less than US$100 per dose by adopting a humanitarian approach to drug development. "The partnership ...

The incredible journey through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain took seven hours - more than enough time for Sim to have died from the bite of the deadly Papuan Taipan snake ...

Professor Warrell says the Papuan taipan is the same species as the Australian Eastern taipan, so the anti-venom may also have a future in treating snake-bite in Australia.

brown snakes and the worst offender of all, the fearsome Papuan taipan. It is all part of an extraordinary, herpetological “milk round” which involves extracting the snakes’ venom in order ...

potent antivenom to one of the world's most lethal snakes, the Papuan taipan can be produced for less than US$100 per dose by adopting a humanitarian approach to drug development. "The partnership ...