A black-necked spitting cobra, which are mostly in sub-Saharan Africa
Luca Boldrini (CC BY-SA)
A commonly used blood thinner could prevent hundreds of thousands of people from needing amputations a… [+2156 chars]
Giving mice the blood-thinning drug heparin after they were injected with venom from two cobra species reduced their risk of tissue death, which can lead to amputations
