How To Make Antivenom
Bitten by a venomous snake? There's hope! French scientist Albert Calmette developed the first snake antivenom in the late 1890s, and did such a good job that ...
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Bitten by a venomous snake? Well, you probably shouldn't waste three precious minutes watching this video, but if you're going to do it anyway, I can tell you that there is hope. Some animals have a natural resistance to snake venom like the snake-eating Honey Badger which can be bitten in the face by a cobra and still not care but for people, historically, you just had two choices: you could either just hope you'd recover, or you could just die. A lot of the time, you did both. but all that changed with Albert Calmette, French researcher, dedicated public health advocate, and co-creator of the tuberculosis vaccine Calmette also developed the first snake antivenom in the late 1890s. The story goes that Calmette was sent to Saigon, in what is now Vietnam by his mentor Lou...
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Bitten by a venomous snake? Well, you probably shouldn't waste three precious minutes watching this video, but if you're going to do it anyway, I can tell you that there is hope. Some animals have a natural resistance to snake venom like the snake-eating Honey Badger which can be bitten in the face by a cobra and still not care but for people, historically, you just had two choices: you could either just hope you'd recover, or you could just die. A lot of the time, you did both. but all that changed with Albert Calmette, French researcher, dedicated public health advocate, and co-creator of the tuberculosis vaccine Calmette also developed the first snake antivenom in the late 1890s. The story goes that Calmette was sent to Saigon, in what is now Vietnam by his mentor Lou...
