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Rushen/Flickr Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a controversial new paper that estimates how many rodents are used in research in the United States each year. Though there is no official number, the paper suggests there might be more than 100 million rats and mice housed in research facilities in the country—doubling or even tripling some earlier estimates. Sarah also chats with Taline Kazandjian, a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions in Liverpool, U.K., about how the venom from spitti...

Drugs that neutralize lethal effects of snakebites could replace antivenom The toxin inhibitors could someday save hundreds of thousands of people who fall victims to snakebites each year. The puff adder ( Bitis arietans) is responsible for thousands of deaths in Africa — deaths that could be preventable with the right antivenom. Credt: Wolfgang Wüster. Snake bites may not strike you as being a major public health problem in the 21st century, and may be the last thing on your mind in a pandemic year. But every month, about 11,000 die from venomous snakebites, or about as many deaths as th...