'Minutes To Die' film screening

The University of Wolverhampton is staging a screening of a documentary focusing on the recently recognised and most neglected tropical disease of snakebite.

And the ‘Minutes to Die’ screening will be followed by an open discussion with snakebite expert Dr Nicholas Casewell from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

The screening takes place at 7pm in MC001 in the Millennium City Building on Wednesday, May 23.

Simon Maddock, Lecturer in Conservation Genetics, has arranged the screening focusing on snakebite, which is a major issue globally, having the greatest impact in some of the world’s most impoverished countries.

Upwards of 125,000 people die each year as a result of snakebite and many more suffer life changing injuries due to it.

After decades of lobbying, snakebite was finally acknowledged as a Neglected Tropical Disease by the World Health Organization in 2017.

Dr Casewell is a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow from the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

He has published over 40 scientific papers and six book chapters on venoms and antivenoms and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals.

The screening is open to all, staff, students and non-students, and will be free to watch although any donations would be welcome to the Global Snakebite Initiative, which is being supported by the film.

Click here for more information about the film and here to view a trailer.