South African Snakebite Symposium 2025

22nd & 23rd November 2025

The National Snakebite Advisory Group and Emergency Medicine Soceity of South Africa are hosting the South African Snakebite Symposium, held on the 22nd and 23rd November 2025 at Pretoria University. It will be a gathering of the top specialists in their fields, coming together to tackle the challenge of envenomation in Southern Africa. I'm honoured and very excited to be part of the speaker lineup. 

Information

The South African Snakebite Symposium is being held on the 22nd and 23rd November 2025 at the following address.

Faculty of Health Science
University Of Pretoria
Prinshof Campus
31 Bophelo Road, Prinshof
Pretoria

The world's leading specialists in their fields will be presenting at the conference. I'm honoured to be part of this event.

Cost is R750 for 1 day (you can choose which day) or R1500 for the 2 days.

Please see the programme for topics and speakers. 

If there are any electronic resources made available after the symposium, they will be available on this webpage.
Register for the symposium on the EMMSA Website

Scorpions and Scorpion Stings In Southern Africa

My contribution to the symposium will be a 30 minute presentation entitled Scorpions and Scorpion Stings In Southern Africa from 12:05 to 12:35 on the 22nd November.

The presentation content includes the following:

  • Overview of scorpions in Southern Africa.
  • Distributions.
  • General activity.
  • Venom and venomosity. 
  • High risk species.
  • High risk areas.
  • When do stings occur?
  • Classification of symptoms. 
  • Symptoms (localised and systemic).
  • Factors influencing symptoms severity.
  • Sting stings and what the statistics tell us.
  • Red flags.
  • Antivenom, a critical resource. 
  • Connecting the dots (classes, symptoms, venomosity, timeframes). 
  • Additional resources, medical references and more...

I'll also be presenting a poster entitled: Reducing the burden of scorpion stings in Southern Africa: a novel approach. 

 

Cannot make it to the symposium?

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