A Royal Thai Marine handles two snakes during jungle survival training as part of Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Chan Krem, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 14, 2019. During 2022, the capability to treat snake bite envenoming made a giant leap forward with the FDA’s ‘Fast-Track’ designation of varespladib, a Broad-Spectrum Snakebite Antidote (BSSA) developed by the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s Warfighter Protection and Acute Care Project Management Office, and funded by the Defense Health Program in collaboration with a non-Department of Defense partner. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez/Released)