Man who let snakes bite him 200 times spurs new antivenom hope

Not so wise

This is a big deal in developing regions (India, S.E. Asia, Africa). In countries with poor infrastructure they need a therapy with a longer shelf life and without need of a cold chain for transportation, something from a thermostable recombinant protein library. That would have the additional advantage of being smaller than antibodies and could penetrate into tissues more efficiently to inhibit the activity of the toxins. It could also be manufactured cheaper than antibodies, and eliminate the need for horse immunizations. With a deimmunized protein scaffold you could also use it repeatedly without provoking an immune response. Just need to work on extending the serum half life.

This is probably the most interesting story I've ever read on this website.

Now working for Centivax, Friede stopped self-inflicting himself with venom in 2018 to save the firm from liability issues.

But he hopes to get bitten by snakes again in the future.

"I do miss it," he said.

Lol

He's the REAL Apothecary Diary.