re: I hate snakes (bit 2 of my dogs) update - vengeance

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Are you sure? I was tracking all corfab goes through Switzerland or somewhere in Europe is what was taught when I did my time as a reptile handler we went down south with venom 1 reaction team and a few other places that sold the venom to some place in Europe that makes the best anti venom crofab though bites from coral snakes I believe they stopped manufacturing that antivenom and just put you on life support until u pass the venom.

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I don't have personal, direct experience with it, but the stories of venomous handlers who have been bit back it up. There's also the occasional news story of native bites that wind up costing people/families outrageous money. Much like everything else, it is probably insurance frickery that accounts for the cost difference.

Venom 1 does good work all over the world. Any venomous handler who has kept snakes for any real length of time has some type of working relationship with them.

An interesting rabbit hole is Ray Hunter. He has a decent YouTube presence. The guy has been injecting various snake venoms for years now. Not for just shits and giggles, but because he handles several venomous species on a daily basis, and his chances of a bite are a gazillion times higher than pretty much anyone else. He milks snakes for places like Venom 1. He started injecting highly diluted elapid venoms and now can take a bite with little more than a bee sting equivalent reaction.