Without exception, all sea snakes are poisonous snakes, but the severity of toxicity is different with each other. Sea snake venom contains neurotoxic like cobra venom, but the strange thing is that it play a major role in skeletal
muscle, so it is called ciguatera.
Due to the complex composition of the sea snake venom, Most of the sea snake venom is harmful to people’s every organ, and may affect every cell, the cardiovascular system, respiratory and nervous systems. Some people think that the toxic of sea
snake vneom is 50 times more than toxic of cobra venom or is 80 times more than toxic of sodium cyanide. It is estimated
that 3.5 mg (dry weight) long-beaked sea snake venom, which is not the most poisonous in the sea snake, is enough to kill an adult,
this is only one-fifth of lethal dose of cobra venom. Sea snakes do not generally take the initiative to attack humans
. According to the 120 cases of snake bites, the fishermen is bit by sea snake venom when the fishermen picked the fish and
dived. Therefore, sea snake would seriously threaten to human. In coastal areas of Thailand, Vietnam and India,it often reported
that Some people have often been bit by sea snake.