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SAFER WITH SCIENCE French pharmaceutical company Aventis Pasteur released a new antivenom against the most dangerous species of African snakes...
...River Runs Through It)--"Look, just tell me why you work with those damned old rattlesnakes," Maclean said--makes no excuses for them. Snakes kill more than 20,000 humans a year, he admits, mostly farmers in the tropics who are accidentally bitten by vipers, although boots and antivenom have reduced the toll in recent years. In the U.S., where 1,000 to 2,000 snakebites occur annually, mostly by rattlesnakes and copperheads, fewer than 10 result in death. The majority of victims, says Greene, who has been nailed only once ("not seriously" by a copperhead as a teen...
Roberts had told the AP in October that he was having difficulty learning Russian and was disenchanted with his job capturing venom from poisonous snakes for use as antivenom serum...
Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...
Presenting himself as proof that the universe is foul, Burroughs achieves the somewhat irrelevant honesty of hysteria as he writes of a malevolent world of users and pushers, of a mad conspiracy of spider-eyed manipulators who sell each other "adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale antivenom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm...