About: James Reid

I often feel like something of an imposter in the world of snakebite. I didn’t start from a position of wanting to ‘save the world’ nor did I come into it from the admirable humanitarian angle of medicine or public health. Yet here I am. Let me explain how I got into working on reducing  Continue Reading »

I am Dr. Doãn Uyên Vy, they call me Dr. Vanessa and I am part of a team of physicians from Cho Ray Hospital, Saigon, Vietnam. We work at the Department of Tropical diseases and we very often meet cases of snakebites. There are about 1000 cases of snakebite every year that were admitted to  Continue Reading »

Growing up in the rural area of Western Uganda, cases of snakebites were a common occurrence. These would happen in garden farms, forests as women collected firewood and around water collection points. Women and children were more at risk of snakebites. In order to save lives, communities resolved that in case one encountered a snake,  Continue Reading »

A conversation with Barbara Bissell and Alisha Howell, producers of the snakebite documentary “Minutes to Die” and advocates of snakebite envenoming since 2015. Barbara: I’ll never forget seeing the first footage that came in from the field when we began filming “Minutes to Die”. In a Kenyan hospital, a mother let us film her then  Continue Reading »

There is perhaps no more recognizable symbol of the western United States than the rattlesnake. Aside from the highest mountain peaks and the center of our largest cities, rattlesnakes are everywhere. Especially in rural areas, avoiding them is not an option. We make snakes more familiar and less scary by busting myths When encountering rattlesnakes  Continue Reading »