Massive Snake Venom Extraction Record! 🐍

🐍The bite of a highly venomous snake can be fatal but usually treatable with antivenom, which is in short supply according to some vets and experts in South Africa. Making the antiserums is a laborious and energy-dependent process. The country’s only antivenom maker forces the reptiles to spit out their poison by making them bite into a glass jar. Small quantities of the toxins are then injected into horses, which over time develop immunity. Their plasma is then harvested and processed to make

Most snake bites happen NOT from stepping on snakes. But from people trying to kill snakes. If you are jabbing at a snake with something and miss you will pay the piper. And if bitten on an extremity like the toes or finger it could cost you that digit. Copperhead venom is hemolytic and destroys red blood cells and tissue. There is little blood flow in the extremities so the venom doesn’t filter out as well thus causing more damage to those areas * * * #explorepage #explore #copperhead #venom #g

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The Effect Snake Venom Has On Blood

How snake venom kills so quickly