Getting bitten by a mamba snake probably sucks. But, according to a team of researchers, mamba venom doesn’t attack you once; it strikes you twice. The second attack is currently unaccounted for by any antivenom presently available on the market.

The researchers recently published their findings in probably the best-named research journal I’ve ever come across: Toxins. Heck yeah. That’s metal as f**k for an outlet that publishes scientific research.

In the paper’s introduction, the research team states that in sub-Saharan Africa, there are approximately 500,000 “envenomings.” That’s a term I recently learned, referring to being bitten or stung by a venomous animal.

It results in over 30,000 deaths per year. That’s an astoundingly huge number of deaths, though the paper doesn’t specify i

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