A Universal Cure for Snake Bites?

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If you're bitten by a snake, you might need a horse to save your life. Researchers are searching for better antivenoms to treat illnesses like snake bite, and they're turning to monoclonal antibodies, made in a lab, to replace the century-old technology we still use today.
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@SciShow 10 месяцев назад

Thank you to Trade Coffee for sponsoring this episode. Go to drinktrade.com/scishow to get a free bag of coffee with any subscription purchase.

@2nd-place 10 месяцев назад

The best anti-venom I’ve found is not leaving my house.

@nBasedAce 10 месяцев назад

I thought that the best anti-venom was Spiderman.

@patrickmccurry1563 10 месяцев назад

I think there's an Australian venomous snake that likes to hang out in human areas. So even indoors isn't necessarily the safest place. Not to mention all the venomous invertebrates like spiders.

@stevebutchart3638 10 месяцев назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 "I think there's an Australian venomous snake that likes to hang out in human areas" You think we only have one that does, aww that's adorable!

@clarehidalgo 10 месяцев назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 My Aussie friend when he was a teen his parents were like "go move the corrugated roofing in the yard" and he lifted it saw a brown snake went "nope" and went back inside

@rbr1170 10 месяцев назад

@@clarehidalgowent back inside with the snake?

@patrickmccurry1563 10 месяцев назад

It would really help supply for rare venoms. If only a few people are bitten by something a year, then there's unlikely to be any antivenin on hand locally.

@SanHydronoid 10 месяцев назад

Not sure if it's the case anymore, but the antivenom for sea snakes was produced from a single horse. I think for global use

@DDRWakaLaka 10 месяцев назад

@@SanHydronoidNot calling you a liar, but can I get a source on that? Sounds neat and I'd like to learn more

@safaiaryu12 10 месяцев назад

Honestly, even "common" antivenin isn't always available everywhere. A few years ago, when I lived in rural Texas, my mom's dog got bit on the face by a rattlesnake. I rushed her to the nearest vet and they said to get antivenin, we'd have to drive like an hour or so to Austin. Not to mention it'd be around $1,000 per dose, and she'd probably need two or three doses, on top of hospitalization and other medicines and care. 😰 It was not a good time. Making all antivenin more readily available could save lives AND bring medical and veterinary costs down. Abby is fine, by the way! She's still got a scar on her nose, but she completely recovered. ❤

@mehere8038 9 месяцев назад

Depends on your health system & priorities. Australia has only 2-3 deaths a year from all snake bites combined, with snakes like the inland taipan not even known to exist until relatively recently, due to how rare they are, but as soon as discovered, as many as possible were caught & sent to the Australian Reptile Park to join the milking program to create anti-venom for them & flying doctors obviously hold extensive supplies of all anti-venoms to take wherever they are needed in bush & outback areas, while all city hospitals stock them all. It's just a case of priorities

@mehere8038 9 месяцев назад

@@DDRWakaLaka I'm guessing it's a "single source" not "single horse". If it is a single source, it will be the CSL in Australia, they produce the vast majority of all global anti-venoms. Snakes, spiders & everything else are milked at the Australian reptile park in Sydney, using mostly animals found by the public & sent to them for that purpose, venom is then sent to the CSL in Melbourne, where it's injected into horses & other animals & then blood taken & transferred to their anti-venom making labs. Extra trivia, this was the same place that tested almost all of the first round of covid vaccines, since it was the only facility in the world big enough to house the required number of animals, with the highest level lab security. Once covid was established as not super dooper infectious/deadly, it was able to be downgraded in terms of testing facility security levels & therefore lots of other global options became available for testing, but at the highest level, the place with all the horses for anti-venom programs & extensive bio-security for agriculture facilities was the only place big enough to handle the animal vaccine testing for humans too

@davidrobles4921 10 месяцев назад

Heard they were also studying opossums because they have venom/poison neutralizing proteins in their systems that work with many types of venoms and poisons including ricin. So I’ve heard. Haven’t heard much lately so wonder if it was abandoned.

@justsomedudeontheinternet 10 месяцев назад

they probably can't make any money with the opossum proteins

@nenasiek 10 месяцев назад

Maybe it just takes time, prob a few years

@Svensk7119 10 месяцев назад

Oh, yeah! Definitely takes time! The whole less than a year for the creation of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is a blooming miracle!

@USUG0 9 месяцев назад

those opossum proteins are likely generating even more unwanted immune reactions than horse antibodies, when injected in humans

@USUG0 9 месяцев назад

@@Svensk7119 just unprecedented effort in face of a pandemc, and indeed a rather easy virus to target (relatively speaking)

@DefnitelyNotFred 10 месяцев назад

That segway into sponsor was golden 😂

@zacherymcclure327 10 месяцев назад

Segwei

@sam-cc6sd 10 месяцев назад

Saguey

@RohitKulshreshtha 10 месяцев назад

Segeu

@stlstinger5191 10 месяцев назад

To make it official, it's SEGUE. A very interesting word with an interesting spelling to boot! Yes, that was a slick segue into the coffee sponsor, but I'm a tea drinker myself.... so no matter how you promote it, coffee is still just burnt bean soup to me....😉

@Kuro-mg8vc 10 месяцев назад

True, I didn't even notice 😂

@zdlax 10 месяцев назад

I'll just microdose different snakes before going out to where snakes congregate.

@jakeroper1096 10 месяцев назад

Let me at a venom microdose patch

@caspenbee 10 месяцев назад

Iocane powder.

@Planetmango48 9 месяцев назад

Okay.

@waynejohnson1786 9 месяцев назад

Centuries old technique, I’ve definitely never heard of it going wrong

@Najakeeper 10 месяцев назад

As a snake bite survivor of Montivipera xanthina venom, I was pretty stressed during the antivenin administration as I knew the allergic reaction risk. Would be good to get better solutions in the near future.

@jonrok100 10 месяцев назад

Hi Scishow, I am about to start working on exactly this with one of the authors from the paper you cited. If you want to know more shoot me a message.

@Beryllahawk 10 месяцев назад

I would like to think that 100 years from now scientists will look back at this century and say "Wow they were persistent, imagine not being able to just whip up a batch of whatever with the necessary proteins." (Sure maybe that's a fantasy but that's okay)

@BLOODKINGbro 10 месяцев назад

They might be hard, but the old school ways work

@marilynlucero9363 10 месяцев назад

It's more realistic to say even within 50 years scientists will look back and say "Wow, they were primitive, (insert A and B) made absolutely no sense, but they were different times." It's how we look back from 50 years ago even though we've been persistent since then, we wouldn't have lived with our former generation's persistence yet we rather see them as primitive than persistent, lol.

@dawsie 10 месяцев назад

Most inventions started out as fantasy, when Star Trek hit the worlds TV’s it had so many fancy gadgets which that looked crazy and cool at the same time, 60 years later are many of those fancy gadgets are now a reality. It’s like the motor car and how everyone is going nuts over EV, the first cars built were EV not petrol 😹😹😹so in that case it’s come full circle 100plus years later.

@johnlucas6683 10 месяцев назад

Heck, the Internet is like some godly fantasy if you show it to people maybe just a few decades past. Not to mention the devices we use.

@awaredeshmukh3202 10 месяцев назад

Like remembering the early days of penicillin, when it was so hard to create that it was reisolated from treated patients' urine

@erfquake1 10 месяцев назад

Here's an idea for a show: the California Mountain Kingsnake (absolutely harmless) and the Coral Snake (insanely deadly) look almost....almost...identical. I thought this must be an example of biomimickry, where the Kingsnake benefits from the fear of the Coral Snake & is therefore left alone. But the habitats of the two snakes don't overlap, so how could this be?

@mermaid10x 10 месяцев назад

Red touch yellow- kill a fellow. Red touch black friend of jack That’s the way I read to remember the difference between these two serpents

@Ktmfan450 10 месяцев назад

Kingsnakes don't have to have the same range as Coral Snakes if they are under the same predatory pressures

@erfquake1 10 месяцев назад

@@Ktmfan450 Ah, so as long as they're both in the same range as another predator(s) over sufficient time to evolve the visual match, then biomimickry would still be the valid explanation. Thanks!

@safaiaryu12 10 месяцев назад

It seems like monoclonal antibodies are extremely useful... I first heard of them for treating COVID, but they've also been used for cancer and autoimmune disorders. A year or two ago, a monoclonal antibody injection for cats became popular to treat osteoarthritis. I asked my vet when it'll be available for humans... hopefully soon! I'm glad people are doing this research.

@USUG0 9 месяцев назад

fun fact the most successful mAb to treat arthritis, Humira, generates $20B/year in revenues. And curiously, it was identified by using phage display

@darkangel21892 9 месяцев назад

They now have a monoclonal antibody to treat arthritis in dogs and one for allergies

@safaiaryu12 9 месяцев назад

@@darkangel21892 I wonder if it's the same one as for cats? Sometimes dogs and cats can use the same medications, sometimes they very much can not. 🤔

@MegamanXGold 10 месяцев назад

That had to be the smoothest transition/segue to a sponsor I've ever seen on this channel. I didn't get my usual "time to leave now" feeling at all before I saw the product.

@AliHSyed 9 месяцев назад

One of my favorite RU-vid videos is the Eons video about the Snake Detection Hypothesis and how venom-spitting snakes emerge with the migration of humans into new regions.

@jmanj3917 10 месяцев назад

0:30 I'm thinking that it's great that people are working on this. I Also think that everyone else involved should be pushing forward while they wait for the "feel-good help" part. My concern is that this entire project will be sidelined whenever the feel-gooders get stalled in Their part of the plan. If it works, keep going. We'll lessen the collateral damage as we get better at understanding the whole system and how the individual parts interplay with each other.

@Neloish 10 месяцев назад

"Burn the damn rainforest, I need more coffee!" - SciShow

@Herr_Damit 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, take Amphetamines instead, they are more potent anyway. And all you need is some chemicals and a basement.

@DefnitelyNotFred 10 месяцев назад

@@Herr_Damitinstructions unclear, I'm in jail after my lab exploded

@Neloish 10 месяцев назад

@@Herr_Damit Are you my soulmate?

@DDRWakaLaka 10 месяцев назад

THERE'S A PLACE CALLED THE RAINFOREST THAT TRULY SUCKS ASS~🎵🎶

@theFminusclub 10 месяцев назад

I miss you and Sci show space so much

@renoken 10 месяцев назад

I love you so much man, your videos never fail to make me smile.

@jamescaldwell2357 10 месяцев назад

Another great episode, Reid!

@macaylacayton2915 10 месяцев назад

we may have stopped riding horses everywhere but horses are still used but not in the way people expect

@Mysterious-Night 10 месяцев назад

I love horses so much. Their faces are just so beautiful

@CritterKeeper01 10 месяцев назад

I am *not* going to try it, I'm just curious….If a person was exposed to a given snake venom, and survived, repeatedly, would that person eventually develop antibodies to that particular venom, and become less susceptible to it?

@alaskawoolf3737 10 месяцев назад

I saw a documentary once, somewhere, about a family in India that worked with snakes and did precisely that. They gradually dosed themselves with snake poison so they could become immune to it, it supposedly works but I still wouldn't risk it. It's called "Mithridatism".

@thestic6349 10 месяцев назад

Yes. Usually, you start developing antibodies during/after the very first exposure, assuming you survived it. That's good ole mithridatism. It just usually takes repeat exposures to have enough antibodies floating around for your blood serum to be useful as antivenom.

@DrachenGothik666 9 месяцев назад

Yes. The doses of venom have to be very small, & done repeatedly over many months. One person who did this is named Tim Friede, & he's taken bites from venomous snakes over 750 times over the years. He works at a company that makes antivenom.

@ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep 9 месяцев назад

Ever heard of a guy called Mithridates?

@mehere8038 9 месяцев назад

depends on the snakes/ This was an old trick used by snake charmers to avoid death, but on the other hand, in Australia, it's common for snake handlers to have to give up their profession because repeated exposures causes the opposite impact, with sensitisation to the venom & severe, deadly anaphylaxis occuring with repeated bites, even to snakes with low toxicity venom

@scottcameron174 9 месяцев назад

Microphages are the future I'm so excited to see what he can do with them in the field of medicine.

@blaegme 10 месяцев назад

The increased consistency would also allow doctors to better notice abnormalities in their patient's condition since this new type of anti-vemon should on average have the same effects and side effects for a given design.

@isaiahmiro2042 9 месяцев назад

WOW THE SEGWAY INTO THE SPONSER WAS SO GOOD Ya got me 😂

@TerenceClark 10 месяцев назад

I got a vaccine when I was a kid that had been incubated in horses (something not done anymore except in case of an egg allergy) and it made me break out in a rash all over my body due to my allergies. They process it thoroughly, but there's still some residual horse proteins in the result.

@nBasedAce 10 месяцев назад

I like picture of the surprised snake around 3 minutes and 25 seconds into the video. 😲🐍

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Black Mamba!

@MR2Davjohn 9 месяцев назад

I had been giving blood since I was 17 until mad cow came along, and after 15 gallons, my blood was flagged due to risk. During my stint of giving blood, I participated in a medical test program in which human blood parts and equine blood parts were used to build blood and antibody parts to be used in both human and veterinary science.

@jwbowen 9 месяцев назад

100,000 people a year die from venomous snake bites? That's quite a bit higher than I would have guessed.

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Around 130 000 plus actually .

@emarti3853 10 месяцев назад

You have a great voice and inflection

@maxravenwood3877 10 месяцев назад

5:20-6:12 😮 sounds like antibody selective breeding!

@jackgianduso1100 10 месяцев назад

100,000 people die a year from snake bites!? That’s insanity.

@CritterKeeper01 10 месяцев назад

Rabies kills 59,000 people every year. 619,000 from malaria in 2021, 1.5 million from tuberculosis in 2020. Divide the deaths from Covid-19 by the number of years it's been around, and you get 2.5 million confirmed deaths per year, but more likely totals that include unconfirmed excess deaths put it at 6.4 to 11.4 million per year. Just to give a little perspective.

@mehere8038 9 месяцев назад

yup. The vast majority are in India though, so no-one in the west cares. Australia has by far the most toxic snakes, but only 2-3 deaths a year. India has far lower toxicity snakes, but FAR more deaths, to the point of making it one of the biggest medical issues globally

@ImDemonAlchemist 10 месяцев назад

Feels very strange for SciShow to be sponsored by one of the Awesome Coffee Club's competitors.

@kayyumamcaoglu8671 10 месяцев назад

The horse in the thumbnail looks like it’s about to say “how hungry?”

@ryanblystone5153 10 месяцев назад

Thank you

@KnowArt 9 месяцев назад

1:07 ????????? uh, what?? 100k? A year? I was about to ask for sources, but then checked the description and because SciShow people are awesome, there is actually a source! But then... it's actually true, which is actually worse!

@eric2500 10 месяцев назад

I will always need horses. Horses are awesome.

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Sheep and Camels are also used. With Camels, the size of the anti-venom has been found to smaller than others, allowing it to pass through the body more effectively!

@aellalee4767 7 месяцев назад

I don't live in a country that has many danger noodles, just normal sneks that bite if you get too close and annoying. Good to know for when I travel though

@bigsarge2085 10 месяцев назад

Horses, those incorrigible rascals!

@KxNOxUTA 9 месяцев назад

Yes but we'd preferably have trees or at least real food on the additional space, certainly not coffee! XD

@Psilomuscimol 9 месяцев назад

There was a rattlesnake in my yard the other day. My dogs went crazy and it kept rattling. I picked the big dog up and put her in the house. The little dogs came in quick though

@robinfeatherhead 9 месяцев назад

that thumbnail is immaculate out of context

@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812 10 месяцев назад

Cool thanks

@USUG0 9 месяцев назад

likely more cost effective for companies. But certainly, it will be much more expensive for the end users

@dROUDebateMeCowards 10 месяцев назад

“I got hepatitis c from a horse, but no confusion It wasn’t from the sex. It was a blood transfusion.”

@WeAreAirborne 9 месяцев назад

"Monoclonal antibodies" has the same meter as "teenage mutant ninja turtles"

@gamesturbator 9 месяцев назад

Chandler's Wildlife should feature this.

@cyrilio 10 месяцев назад

Why do they use horses and not pigs? Wouldn’t those genetically be a closer match to humans?

@firewoman7722 10 месяцев назад

Poor horses! 🐎 I'm sure its not a pleasant experience for the horses, so im glad this is being explored more rigorously.

@zobko 9 месяцев назад

"You know, as a treat" 🙈🤣

@_D_P_ 10 месяцев назад

5:46 The horse thing.

@colehalford1893 10 месяцев назад

I want his shirt 👚!

@anarchoraven 10 месяцев назад

Phage based medicine has been popular in Georgia for a while now, with very good results

@tejashpathak6125 10 месяцев назад

I love these contents, but I loved the way you guys used to do a scishow quiz show. I have been waiting for the revamped quiz show forever and so i please beg scishow, bring back scishow quiz show.

@nottelling7438 9 месяцев назад

It isn't the same, but scishow tangents is a thing that they do.

@nicksamek12 10 месяцев назад

Alright that shirt is good stuff

@2l84t 10 месяцев назад

Small universe no mention of Hemotoxins.

@Aragorn7884 10 месяцев назад

Mr. Ed would be pissed 😅

@matthewmeek4593 10 месяцев назад

I like your shirt. Whale shirt. Where'd you get one?

@bandana_girl6507 10 месяцев назад

"The trick here is that you can't really go around inoculating humans with snake venom and isolating the antibodies produced." Well... There are a few researchers doing this with one guy in particular.

@danser_theplayer01 10 месяцев назад

Dude just mix a dozen monoclonal antibodies into a cocktail depending on the venom you're looking to treat.

@0151Master 10 месяцев назад

Exactly, easy as that 😂

@danser_theplayer01 10 месяцев назад

@@0151Master They could study the venom and record the necessary rations *once* and then you just mix it every time you need it. It's not like snakes are suddenly going to randomise their venom.

@mcgovemj 10 месяцев назад

That’s what polyclonal antibodies are.

@danser_theplayer01 10 месяцев назад

@@mcgovemj Yes and no, they complain how you need to keep injecting horses with specific venoms. While I say, make a ton of lower-lever "bricks" of the anti venom and keep them in a hospital and mix them on the spot, that would allow for more dynamic supply that can be used for anything and isn't strictly for a specific snake untill you look at a recipe list, find your snake, and mix it. Trying to create a single "super brick" is too much effort and feels like something unnecessarily fancy.

@mcgovemj 10 месяцев назад

@@danser_theplayer01 They play pretty loose with what “polyclonal” means.

@JLocke0113 8 месяцев назад

Now this is a horse I want in a hospital.

@alto7183 10 месяцев назад

Buen video, luego sacaran la sangre de oro de cada especie biológica mamíferos, para poder usar mejor la zootecnia animales de varios usos, hasta producir sangre de oro humana 2.0 artificial biológico con la ingeniería genética sugerencia.

@Big_Un 10 месяцев назад

Haha! " .....developed at the TAIL end of the 19ty century." 1:05 I see what you did there!!!

@coachmcguirk6297 10 месяцев назад

The universal cure for snake bites is more snake bites. They call it "rapid tolerance building".

@awaredeshmukh3202 10 месяцев назад

If you get bitten by enough snakes, eventually you won't be around to notice even more!

@Rct3master44 10 месяцев назад

same energy as the guy who kept shooting himself in the leg with a small caliber gun, then getting a bigger caliber once his skin hardened.

@nunyobidness2358 10 месяцев назад

Iron trousers?

@M0U53B41T 10 месяцев назад

Yeahhhhh you had me at coffee :D

@elcucumber2847 10 месяцев назад

the THUMBNAIL omg

@primaryesthethicinstincts4832 10 месяцев назад

Shaq is big enough to be a human anti-venom producer. 😂

@ebonyblack4563 8 месяцев назад

As A Treat!

@p00lboy 10 месяцев назад

i like that shirt

@ag135i 10 месяцев назад

One day anti venom vaccines will be added to the list of vaccination drives.

@myrmatta1 10 месяцев назад

*Horse pun*

@johnlash6511 10 месяцев назад

Being allergic to horses keeps me from owning venomous snakes 😢

@stevenglisson7614 10 месяцев назад

What about honey badgers?

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Too small!

@andrewbarker8631 10 месяцев назад

Where's Savannah Geary? 😕

@leightonolsson4846 10 месяцев назад

Yeah this sounds a very good way forward; one of the unfortunate effects of the traditional method for producing anti-venom is the significantly shortened lifespan of the horses as a result. I mean, we owe an incredible debt of gratitude to these beautiful animals.

@mehere8038 9 месяцев назад

it's a handful of horses! Nothing like the numbers of racehorses with "shortened lifespans" cause they don't run fast enough for our amusement

@leightonolsson4846 9 месяцев назад

@@mehere8038 no argument with that

@Tick421 10 месяцев назад

Curious how a shark or whales immune system might respond. I’m not allowed to do science.

@shaider1982 9 месяцев назад

Imagine that, horses have served humans as tanks, cars, trucks, tractors, race cars before we developed the needed tech for thousands of yeara. It's fitting that we retire them as sourcea of anti venom.

@jaystreit3777 10 месяцев назад

Umm, what happened to the awesome coffee club?

@markedis5902 10 месяцев назад

Prevention is better than cure… why not move to Ireland? No snakes!

@trelligan42 10 месяцев назад

Always have to turn volume down for this presenter. #FeedTheAlgorithm

@FlexxibleFree 10 месяцев назад

Can we expect similar research into allergens and allergic reactions anytime soon? I maybe misunderstanding this a lot but it feels like something kinda adjacent

@nukeputin420 10 месяцев назад

Look up allergy shots

@garcipat 10 месяцев назад

Do these anti venoms also work with other venomeous aNimals like scorpions?

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Not at all. In South Africa we have an anti-venom for 2 potentially deadly scorpions. Rarely used. We also produce an anti-venom for the Black Button Spider. Similar to the Black Widow. For snakes, a 10 snake polyvalent anti-venom, a mono-valent anti-venom for the Boomslang and a mono-valent anti-venom for the Saw Scaled Vipers found in West Africa. There is also an anti-venom PANAF (Pan African), covering 14 different snakes.

@papalouis9111 9 месяцев назад

I feel like he looks like a mix between one of the dudes from guess who? and post Malone

@yellowflowerorangeflower5706 10 месяцев назад

Cool😊

@rikofebri627 10 месяцев назад

This just snake venom version of movie ' i am legend"

@p.0-npcg.248 10 месяцев назад

If a bigger animal is better at this, then the next step is right on your t shirt

@coolcoolercoolest212 10 месяцев назад

Have they tried having a horse bite a snake instead?

@Lew114 10 месяцев назад

You didn’t talk about how incredibly expensive anti venom is now. Why is that?

@mehere8038 9 месяцев назад

cause they have an international audience & in the vast majority of the world the government pays for it?

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

@mehere8038 In Costa Ruca they have a very strong anti-venom production industry. Anti-venom is supplied for free there!

@amyhart903 10 месяцев назад

Couldn't your body make it's own antivenom if you take a very small amount of venom over time?

@halflucan 10 месяцев назад

Probably, but much like building up an alcohol tolerance, I'd assume it would be unhealthy in the long run

@Berryccuda 9 месяцев назад

I saw a tv episode where a guy injected small amounts of venom over time in hopes of making a antivenom. I recall the episode saying it was very cost prohibitive. I imagine a horse has a lot more mass to make antivenom than a human and phage based antivenom can be incrementally scaled

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

In South Africa we have a polyvalent anti-venom covering 10 snakes and a mono-valent anti-venom covering 1 snake. Going to be very difficult to inject all those venoms to be effective!

@vac65 10 месяцев назад

Horses, sheep or... goats... and its necesary... 😁

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Camels as well.

@enoms7873 10 месяцев назад

But like, hey reid 👀

@adamwishneusky 5 месяцев назад

Boo horses! Yay coffee!

@nitricoxidegod 10 месяцев назад

👍

@soluteemoji 7 месяцев назад

Every medical problem seems like it would be fixable with a good enough gene therapy. Give me the horse genes that destroy venom

@JonDundas10 10 месяцев назад

I thought it was anti venin? Not anti venom

@James2210 10 месяцев назад

Edit: Apparently it's both, cool. I've only ever heard antivenom

@ashley-anne7043 9 месяцев назад

This guy sounds like a specific wrestler, but I can't remember who.

@alfredhernandez3843 10 месяцев назад

can't they just use the snakes blood it should have the same antibodys as it's own venom in case of accidental self injection

@stephsexoticpets 10 месяцев назад

has anyone consulted the horses??

@Lozzie74 10 месяцев назад

Yes. We asked them if they minded this and they said “neigh”.

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

We're horses designed to be beasts of burden, pulling wagons, being ridden and pulling plows amongst other numerous tasks?

@SpaceLordof75 10 месяцев назад

I’m allergic to horses. I was also raised on a horse farm. And, somehow, I am not that afraid of snakes. Maybe I should be.

@eric2500 10 месяцев назад

There is no justice.

@clarehidalgo 10 месяцев назад

Like Pythons, Boas,and most Colubrids are not venomous, so unless you are dealing with Vipers or Elapids often, I don't think you should be too worried

@IANCHARLES1965 6 месяцев назад

Anaphylaxis can occur in anyone receiving anti-venom produced from horses. This can occur about 40% of the time. That's why anti-venom must only be given in hospital and the doctor must sit by the patient for the whole infusion to treat any anaphylaxis that might occur. Pre-dosing with a small amount of adrenaline reduces the risk by about 50%!