Monday, May 05, 2025

He let Snakes Bite him some 200 times, it Created a Better Snakebite Antivenom

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake.

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Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.[image or embed]

-- NPR (@npr.org) May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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