| Venomous snakes may be a big boon in reducing | | | | the natural world. |
| pests like rats and they may play a part in keeping | | | | Snakes such as rattlesnakes and other pit vipers use |
| nature's equilibrium, but they certainly are not | | | | a venom called hemotoxic venom. This is a very |
| welcome guests inside your home. Every year, | | | | painful way to go because hemotoxins attack red |
| several people die around the world because of | | | | blood cells, disrupts blood clotting, and cause often |
| snakebites. So what's the secret of snake venom | | | | permanent tissue damage. This kind of venom has a |
| and why is it so deadly? | | | | very good chance to cost you a limb if it doesn't |
| There are powerful toxins at work in snake venom | | | | take your life altogether. Dying from hemotoxic |
| that can kill you by attacking your body in different | | | | venom, though longer, is far more painful than dying |
| ways. The most usual toxic venom that organisms | | | | from neurotoxic venom, with this kind of venom |
| use to kill other vertebrates like us is neurotoxic | | | | attacking your body's proteins, quite literally digesting |
| venom. Not only snakes, but pufferfish, some | | | | you alive. |
| scorpions and spiders use this kind of venom, which | | | | Rattlesnakes and certain other venomous snakes |
| attack the nerve cells of the victim, causing almost | | | | have venom that can cause necrosis, which is the |
| immediate paralysis and eventual death. By attacking | | | | unnatural death of cells and living tissue. This is a |
| neurons, this kind of venom can cause your body to | | | | really excruciating way to go. So responsibility in |
| shut down completely, which is the favorite hunting | | | | handling and dealing with snakes is the preferred |
| and defensive strategy of snakes like the cobra. This | | | | course of action. |
| is one of the quickest and most efficient venoms in | | | | |