The Human Antivenom Project
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.
https://www.outsideonline.com/...source=pocket-newtab
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Bazootiehead-in-training
17 May 2019, 10:21 AM
ShiroKuroMe, reading this article:
Also,this:
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a young researcher in Denmark who has dubbed himself Snakebite Jesus
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!
Jodi