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Fascinating science; bizarre story.

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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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Me, reading this article:
Eeker Confused Eeker

Also,this:
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a young researcher in Denmark who has dubbed himself Snakebite Jesus

ROTFLMAO
Obviously everyone in this field is a little bit out there....

As for the rest of the article, how fascinating, and also very odd. I had no idea "self-immunizing" was even a thing.

On a more serious note:
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Every year, snakes kill between 80,000 and 130,000 people and claim 400,000 limbs through amputation.


This I also had no idea of, and it does make the pursuit of the self-immunizer a little less loony-tunes. But only just!


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Wow.


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Make no small plans.


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That's a wild story.
 
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