A self-proclaimed snake and venom expert has endured hundreds of snake bites so you don’t have to. Californian herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists created an "unparalleled" antivenom by using the blood of a man who was bitten by over 200 snakes and injected over 700 doses of venom into his body. For 18 years Tim ...

Jeff Leibowitz is an advocate of free-handling, in which people control venomous snakes using their bare hands “See how she’s trying to get me,” Jeff Leibowitz says as he holds a thin grey snake ...

TL;DR: Tim Friede's self-immunization against venomous snakes led to the discovery of potent antibodies enabling a new universal antivenom effective against 13 snake species. This breakthrough aims to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites. Friede has ...

SAN DIEGO, CA (IANS) – A team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Scripps Research Institute, here have developed a synthetic human antibody that can neutralize a potent ...

SLADE, Ky. (WKRC) - A man who works as co-director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo narrowly escaped death after being bitten by a highly venomous snake. Jim Harrison told WKYT that he was working on an ...

POWELL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX18) — Two Powell County paramedics are in hot water after they say they saved a man's life using anti-venom after he was bitten by a highly venomous snake back in May. Now the ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — An East Cobb man is recovering in the hospital after being bitten by a copperhead snake in his backyard. To make things worse, he says the anti-venom to treat the bite could cost ...