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Blood-thinning drug heparin may stop snakebite victims losing limbs
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 after a cobra bite. Snakebites kill up to 138,000 people …