Botox could be used to fight snakebite

Fighting fire with fire? Try fighting venom with toxins. Botulinum toxin — possibly the deadliest chemical compound yet known in nature — may help suppress the most destructive effects of snake venom. 

The preliminary findings, published in the Feb. 1 Toxicon, suggest that the potent neurotoxin could be an effective treatment to blunt the catastrophic muscle damage that can result from many venomous snakes’ bites, possibly by turning down the dial on the body’s inflammatory response to the venom.

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