Blood of man with 200 snake bites aids antivenom development
Tim Friede, a self-trained herpetologist from Wisconsin, has endured more than 200 venomous snake bites and over 700 venom injections over the past two decades in a deliberate effort to build immunity to snake venom. His extreme and controversial self-experimentation has now become instrumental in the development of a potential universal antivenom that could revolutionize…