FAQ Venomous Animals

I'm interested in obtaining photos of the venomous snakes that appear in your listing of venomous plants and animals to accompany the descriptions on your country listing. Could you recommend a place where I might get them?

Most of the images posted in the Living Hazards Database may be used with proper credit stated to the photographer and/or the AFPMB website.  Some alternative sources for further information and/or images also include: the reptile database, the new WHO snake database; the Toxinology database (Australian) and the Venomdoc website. 

I would like to use one of your pictures for a book of mine on venomous snakes. Is that possible?

Most of the images posted on our website are publicly available and do not require a fee for use, especially for educational purposes. We require that you clearly credit the photographer and all other contributing sources for each image used. In most cases, that would be the photographer (if identified with the posted image) and/or our website:  www.afpmb.org.  For purposes other than educational, please submit a specific request for use in case any third party photographer (i.e., anyone who is not a member of the AFPMB staff) might have only authorized our use of that image and/or has stated some restriction(s) on further distribution.   

I would like some assistance gathering information on vector borne diseases, insect envenomation, venomous animals, and other related health threats/prevention measures in preparation for an upcoming deployment.

For such information, regardless of where you may be deploying, you should start by checking for any such information available through your own and the next higher support elements in your chain of command.  Next, you might access our Disease Vector Ecology Profiles (DVEP), posted on this website.  You may also find relevant information in the AFPMB’s Living Hazards Database, searched “by country”. If you are serving as a member of the DoD or Federal government, you may also want to access the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) webpage or use their complete contact information. If you don't have .mil or .gov e-mail access, call their 24-Hour Service/Request for Information number (301-619-7574), validate your need and submit your request.