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One of the biggest challenges we face in Africa is the availability of antivenom and snakebite deaths has been recognised by the World Health Organisation as a neglected tropical disease. Up to 20,000 fatalities are reported in Africa every year.
Are juvenile snakes more venomous than adults?
Animal Planet or Nat Geo put together a documentary in which it was stated that juvenile snakes are more dangerous than adults because they are still dumb and do not know how to control their venom. What research this was based on (if any) is not known.
What is the deadliest snake in Southern Africa?
What is the deadliest snake in Southern Africa?
A popular question with no easy answer. We do not have a way to test snake venoms on humans, and in the past, tests were done on laboratory mice and referred to as a LD50 test. It boils down to the amount of venom, measured in milligrams, that is required to kill fifty out of one hundred laboratory mice within 24 hours.