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Since 2000, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured some 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly two decades, few took him seriously. Then a gifted young immunologist stumbled upon Friede on YouTube—and became convinced that he was the key to conquering snakebites forever.

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a young researcher in Denmark who has dubbed himself Snakebite Jesus

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Every year, snakes kill between 80,000 and 130,000 people and claim 400,000 limbs through amputation.