What Cobra Venom Actually Does to a Body
A cobra does not kill with brute force. Its venom is a precise molecular weapon: a cocktail of alpha-neurotoxins that travel through the bloodstream and bind to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction. Those receptors are the docking points where nerve signals tell muscles to contract. When the neurotoxin occupies them, the signal stops. Muscles go slack. The diaphragm stops moving. Death, in most animals, follows from asphyxiation rather than any dramatic tissue destruction.
