University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Keep checking back for updates:
Last update 2/3/2010
> NEW! We're in discussions to combine Venom Week 4/2011 with Biology of the Rattlesnakes II. The exact date and venue is still in exploration, but we hope to have details within the month. Keep checking back!
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> NEW! Didn't everybody know this was a bogus story from the start?
And exactly what do we know about using an African antivenom on an Asiatic cobra bite?
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local/animals&id=7242260
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> Recent articles in Lancet:
Warrell D. Snake Bite. Lancet 2010; 375: 77–88.
Williams D, Gutiérrez JM, Harrison R, et al. The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite. Lancet 2010; 375: 89–91.
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> Some new photos from Bob Myers at the Rattlesnake Museum added.
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> Abstracts of the Coral Snake Antivenom Conference, sponsored by the NIH Office of Rare Diseases and organized by the FDA/CBER and held in Washington, DC, January 28, 2009, have been published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of Medical Toxicology. Here's the reference: J Med Toxicol 2009; 5(4): 250 - 256. We anticipate that the abstracts from Venom Week 2009 will be published in the Journal of Medical Toxicology early in 2010. There is now a link on the navigation pane to a copy of the abstracts.
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> We will only be able to take checks or Money Orders for DVD sales from now on. The DVD contains almost all of the presentations -- Three and a half days worth -- plus pdfs of the slides, poster abstracts, and more. Order yours here: Venom DVD Order Form Web 3.pdf
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> From the FDA: The expiration date of lot 4030026 of Wyeth North American Coral Snake Antivenin (Micrurus fulvius) (Equine) has been extended by a year to 31 October 2010. An announcement to this effect has been made on the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/ucm155092.htm
To preclude inadvertent disposal of this product, please share this information with your colleagues.
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> The FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee voted unanimously on 7/20/09 to recommend that the FDA accept animal evidence of efficacy, along with volunteer human PK and safety studies, for the initial licensure of a coral snake antivenom. The FDA would still have to formally accept this recommendation (they are not obliged to follow the recommendations of their advisory committees), and an existing manufacturer of a coral snake antivenom has to submit an Investigational New Drug Application, but it means it is more likely that we will eventually have a replacement antivenom for the current FDA-approved product, which has been out of production for several years and is likely to start running out this coming year. I will update this site with news of interest as it occurs.
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Questions or comments? Email Steven A. Seifert, MD, Symposium Organizer:
sseifert@salud.unm.edu
This symposium has previously been held as "Snakebites in the New Millennium 2005," Omaha, NE; and "Venom Week 2007," Tucson, AZ.