Nanobody-based antivenom shows effectiveness against 17 African snake species

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite envenoming as one of 21 neglected tropical diseases, resulting in between ...
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How Llamas Could Save the Lives of Deadly Snake Bite Victims

Antivenom, also known as antivenin, is an umbrella term for purified antibodies which work against venoms or parts of venoms. To make them, snakes, spiders, and other animals are milked for their ...
The Economist

Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

Medicine is not helpless. Snake bites can be neutralised with antivenom, but that is often not to hand in the remote parts of ...
Yahoo

A self-taught snake expert’s 200 snake bites may lead to a universal ‘cure’ for snake venom

A sidewinder raises its head to strike a human hand. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A new Cell study suggests human-derived antibodies—first found in the blood of self-taught snake handler Tim ...
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Llamas provide key ingredient for snake antivenom

Scientists at the University of Oklahoma have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of snake antivenom. They have ...
BGR

Survivor Of 200 Snake Bites And A Coma Gives Blood To Create The Ultimate Antivenom

A new scientific breakthrough could reshape how the world responds to deadly snakebites. Thanks to antibodies found in the blood of a man who has spent nearly two decades building immunity to snake ...
Scientific American

Blood of Man Who’s Had 200 Snakebites Helps Make a Potent Antivenom

Scientists have made a potent antivenom using antibodies from a man who has been bitten hundreds of times by venomous snakes. The therapy protects mice against the venoms of 19 species of deadly snake ...
The Scientist

A Man Who Survived Hundreds of Snakebites Helped Scientists Develop a Potent Antivenom

This motivated Glanville to start Centivax, a biotechnology company which, among other things, focuses on developing universal snakebite treatments. “Antivenom had always fascinated me,” said ...
The Macomb Daily

Snakes have bitten this man hundreds of times. His blood could help make a better treatment

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites. Friede has ...
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This Man Survived Hundreds of Deadly Snakebites. His Blood Holds the Key to a Potent New Antivenom.

For nearly 18 years, Tim Friede injected himself with doses of venom from the world’s deadliest snakes. A snake enthusiast, Friede was regularly at risk of snakebites and always kept vials of ...
Nature

Blood of man who’s had 200 snake bites helps make a potent antivenom

Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. The antivenom combines the existing drug varespladib with antibodies that are copies of those in the blood of Tim Friede, a US ...