idunnololz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 14 days ago'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 timeswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
arrow-up1250arrow-down1external-link'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 timeswww.bbc.comidunnololz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 14 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
minus-square@PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish29•14 days agoNot one mention of how this guy got his hands on so many different snake venoms in order to acquire this broad immunity. Interesting dude nonetheless.
minus-square@PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoI just opened the article again and searched for “handler,” which has zero results? What am I missing? Was there a video I didn’t watch?
minus-square@lagoon8622@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•13 days ago He initially wanted to build up his immunity to protect himself when handling snakes, documenting his exploits on YouTube.
minus-square@PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-213 days agoAh, okay. I see now. “Snake handler” generally refers to a professional, but the subject of the article was described as a former truck mechanic. I just didn’t process that in the correct order.
minus-squarefmstratlinkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoI caught it from this: He initially wanted to build up his immunity to protect himself when handling snakes, documenting his exploits on YouTube. Maybe i read into it a bit, but here is his bio: https://www.centivax.com/tim
Not one mention of how this guy got his hands on so many different snake venoms in order to acquire this broad immunity. Interesting dude nonetheless.
Snake handler job had one mention.
I just opened the article again and searched for “handler,” which has zero results?
What am I missing? Was there a video I didn’t watch?
Ah, okay. I see now. “Snake handler” generally refers to a professional, but the subject of the article was described as a former truck mechanic. I just didn’t process that in the correct order.
I caught it from this:
Maybe i read into it a bit, but here is his bio: https://www.centivax.com/tim