US EditionSnake Season: What to Do if a Venomous Snake Bites You?
- Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic from Two Rivers, Wisconsin, allowed himself to be bitten over 200 times by snakes from 2000 to 2018 to develop immunity against venom.
- Friede's practice of mithridatism aimed to achieve total immunity and escalated after he took a class on milking snakes for venom in childhood.
- Immunologist Jacob Glanville, who shifted focus to antivenoms in 2017, studied Friede's blood antibodies to develop a broader antivenom with a drug called varespladib.
- A recent study in the Cell journal shows Friede's antibodies protect against multiple snake venoms, supporting hopes for a universal antivenom to address 138,000 annual deaths worldwide.
- Friede stopped self-injecting venom in 2018 to reduce liability for Centivax but remains proud of contributing to medical history and hopes to resume exposure carefully in the future.
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