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Recent Examples of antivenom
Funding a promising breakthrough In laboratory trials with rodents, the new nanobody antivenom prevented the deaths of mice exposed to venoms from 17 of the 18 snake species.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
Also known as a water moccasin, this darkly colored—usually near-black or olive brown—snake isn’t aggressive, but its bite is fatal without rapid administration of an antivenom.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 19 Sep. 2025
The antivenom is reported today in a paper in Cell.
—Katherine Bourzac, Scientific American, 7 May 2025
Of the seven facilities in the U.S. that produce the majority of venom for making antivenom and medical research, four are in Florida, including Barden’s Medtoxin Venom Laboratories.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
Also known as a water moccasin, this darkly colored—usually near-black or olive brown—snake isn’t aggressive, but its bite is fatal without rapid administration of an antivenom.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 19 Sep. 2025
The antivenom is reported today in a paper in Cell.
—Katherine Bourzac, Scientific American, 7 May 2025
Of the seven facilities in the U.S. that produce the majority of venom for making antivenom and medical research, four are in Florida, including Barden’s Medtoxin Venom Laboratories.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antivenom
Noun
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As luck would have it, Charlie had been given an antivenin shot just two days before he got bitten by the rattlesnake.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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First, producing antivenins for India’s different regions is difficult.—
Kamala Thiagarajan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Nov. 2023
Noun
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Former Los Angeles Times scribe Louis Sahagun wrote about the company’s effort to bring its anti-venom antidote, Varespladib, to the market in 2023.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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And the Chiefs jumped up three spots to take LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane as a new antidote to the Waddle-Courtland Sutton combination in Denver.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Antivenom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antivenom. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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