The snakes do not, in fact, have been inviting their bites for some time.
The 57 -year -old Wisconsin Tim Friede Herpetologist spent two decades in, deliberately injecting with more than 650 shots of strategically measured snake poison and leaving dangerous snakes, including Cobas and Mambas, he bites it more than 200 times.
“It always burns, and it is always, always painful,” Friede told Science News.
To try to immune to 16 lethal snake species, Friede developed unique antibodies to his blood, which are used as an anti-venom.
A study published last week in Cell Magazine found that a cocktail of two of its antibodies and a inflammatory drug fully protected mice exposed to the lethal poison of 13 snake species and partially protected mice against six more species.
Poisonous snakes bite about 3 million people a year, killing up to 138,000 and causing many more to suffer a permanent disability. Friede’s self-experimentation can help lead a universal anti-venom to neutralize these toxins.
“I am really proud that I can do something in life for humanity, to make a difference for people who are 8,000 miles away, which I will never meet, I will never talk, probably never see,” said Friede to New York Times.
The Times reported that Friede’s first snake bite was a jacket snake at the age of 5.
He hunted small snakes and finally expanded his passion at the age of 30 doing a class about milking spiders and scorpions hoping to collect a race by collecting poison for medical research.
Following a brief Dalliance with Scorpions, he addressed his snakes in 2000. The rest was his stories.
I would delight the poison and inject larger quantities into its body to build immunity.
His first professional bites came in September 2001, when he tried an Egyptian cobra and accidentally bit his finger. It survived because for months the cobra poison has microdated.
Trust too much after deceiving death, he let a monocled cobra bite the biceps. This time, the doctors had to resuscitate it with six anti-vire roads of the Zoo. Spent four days in a coma.
“My first couple bites were really crazy,” said Friede, according to NPR. “It’s like a bite of bees to thousands. I mean, you can have anxiety levels passing through the roof.”
Friede’s Viper-Viper-Viper Tests attracted the attention of immunologist Jacob Glanville, who contacted 2017.
“We had this conversation. And I said, I know it’s uncomfortable, but I’m really interested in looking at some blood,” Granville recalled CNN. “And he said,” Finally, I have been waiting for this call. “”
The 40 milliliter blood show of Friede paved the way for new research.
He works for the Biotechnological Company of Glanville, Centivax, and is no longer abused to be bitten. His last Chomp was from a water cobra in 2018.
“Tim, as I know, has an unmatched story. It was a different species, very diverse from all the continents that has snakes and … it continued to rotate between (snake poisons) during a story of 17 years, nine months, and took meticulous records all the time,” Granville said to CNN.
“However, we firmly discourage anyone to try to do what Tim did,” he added. “The snake poison is dangerous.”
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