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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. 

South African Snakebite Symposium 2025

When & Where

    2nd and 23rd November 2025

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

Topics

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

  • Identification of medically important snakes.
  • Pre-hospital management of snakebite.
  • Mapping the evidence of snake antivenom regulations - a global perspective. 
  • Wildlife and domestic pet bites.
  • Marine envenomation.
  • Poison centre update and basic stats. 
  • NSAG and database update.
  • Poisonous plants.
  • Syndromic medical management of snakebite.
  • Allergic reactions  to snake venom - an occupational hazard.
  • Which is more scary - the Big 5 or little 5?
  • Venom and research. 
  • Small molecule therapy in snakebite. 
  • Antivenoms, how do they actually work and why PANAF is working?
  • From snake to antivenom. 

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.  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?

Cannot make it to the symposium but itching to step up to the leadership challenge of scorpion sting first response? No problem, why not join me on one of my public events or purchase a copy of my Essential Scorpion Sting First Response Book or Essential Scorpion Sting First Response Workbook or just subscribe to My Newsletter.

Send me an email Info@JonathanLeeming.com

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