The snake bite issue in Indonesia is a unique situation, with over 100+ species of venomous snakes, on over 15,000+ Islands and 264 million inhabitants, snakebite is just an everyday occurrence to many people in this fascinating country. All that totaled up with only anti venom for 3 species, that is produced in Indonesia, at only 40,000 vials per year the snake bite situation and infrastructure is in dire need of help.

 

On this episode Dr Tri Maharani, talks about the issues the country is facing and the work she has done to help train and get information out there to help save many peoples lives! 

The hosts in this episode:

Ross Deacon

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The Digital Frontier: Innovative ways to solve the Indian snake bite crisis

 

50,000 people a year die of snakebite in India alone, so with this in mind we turn our attention this week to India! Jose Louies joins us on the show from the Indian Snakebite Initiative to talk about the inventive ways that they are trying to solve this crisis. however, with India being one of the fastest developing countries in the world the challange is some what different to that in Africa. Jose goes into detail about how him and others are trying to solve this crisis with technology!

The hosts in this episode:

Ross Deacon

Edd Crittenden

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MICROSCOPES AND LAB COATS: THE JORDAN DEBONO COLLECTION

Women in the sciences have previously seen a swage of sexism and prejudice in their fields, however, with thoughts changing with in the academic world, we talk to  one of the women pushing STEM based research and work into the limelight for younger generations!

Jordan Debono, a young Australian researcher that has been involved with some of the most cutting edge research with venomous animals, working under the tuition and mentorship of Dr Bryan Gregg Fry comes onto the show to discuss her venom research and also talk about the work she did to win the STEM women in science awards and the opportunities that has created for her world wide!We also discuss why and how Jordan came into venomous research and what it is like to work in one of the most respected institutions in the world.The hosts in this episode:Ross DeaconEdd CrittendenTom McPhersonPlease Listen and download on any of the below platforms:Podbean: https://wordontsnakevine.podbean.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6e6kkI6cwJjAx3I4K4CTic…iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/word-on-the-snake-v…/id1450959744Google Podcasts:https://www.google.com/podcasts…YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbHx1CCLZKMfndnf70IFqgThank you all for listening and please like and share the page and enjoy this latest episode!!

HOST BREAK OUT EPISODE

TO MENTOR OR NOT TO MENTOR? THAT IS THE QUESTION

With the guests arriving thick and fast to talk about the issues that are close to them, the hosts take a minute to sit back and talk about issues and common topics with in venomous herpetoculutre. In this episode, 4 of the host talk about training to handle and keep venomous animals, as well as some of the protocols and techniques used while handling the bigger and faster animals!

We also talk about many different experiences us as hosts have had with differing snakes and animals over the years.

The hosts in this episode:

Ross Deacon

Edd Crittenden

Tim Gessner

Niek Sluys

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SLIPS, TRIPS AND ANAPHYLAXIS WITH SCOTT EIPPER

 

Welcome to the fifth episode of Word on the Snake Vine and today we talk about australian herps and snake bites!

 

In this episode the hosts (Ross Deacon and Edd Crittenden) talk to Scott Eipper about his venomous snake bites and how he suffered from an allergic reaction to a non medically signifcant snake!

 

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Welcome to the forth episode of Word on the Snake Vine and today we talk about opisthoglyphous snakes!

In this episode the hosts (Ross Deacon and Edd Crittenden) talk to Squirl Robinson about the myths surrounding opisthoglyphous or rear fanged snakes and their venom's!

 

Have you ever heard "oh its like a bee sting!" or "they are actually mid fanged" well in this show we bust all of them myths plus chat about different rear  fanged snakes venom and morphology!

 

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Welcome to the third episode of Word on the Snake Vine and today we have the first of our guest episodes with Ray Morgan!

In this episode the hosts (Ross Deacon and Edd Crittenden) talk to Ray Morgan the producer of the Venom interviews! We talk to Ray about many topics, taking the listener through parts of the filming of the venom interviews, as well as talking about what drove Ray into making this brilliant documentary! Then moving onto talking about Costa Rica herps and also the critical snake bite work Ray is involved in, through the power of his stories the hosts were truly touched and we are SO excited to bring this episode to you our listeners!

 

Below is a list of websites to find out more about the work Ray is involved in. We would also like to say a big thank you for Ray joining us on this episode of the podcast

The Venom Interviews group on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/The.Venom.Interviews/The Venom Interviews (official website)http://thevenominterviews.com/The Venom Interviews (streaming)https://vimeo.com/channels/thevenominterviewsAfrican Society of Venimologiehttps://vimeo.com/venimologieAsclepius Snakebite Foundationhttps://www.snakebitefoundation.org/

Euro venom conference

http://eurovenom.com/

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