Man’s extreme snake bite trials boost new antivenom research

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Paris: For most, on the day of September 11, 2001, a sense of deep sorrow and danger arose. Tim Freddy’s IT, it was a call for a very, almost unbearable experience.

Particularly feeling less, the then truck mechanics went to their basement and deliberately allowed two deadly snakes of the world to cut it. Four days later, he awakened from a coma with a cold revelation: “I know how to die from a snake byte” Freddy described AFP by a video call from his modest home by a video call in two rivers, Wisconsin.

With death, this brush provoked a madness Freddy. From 2000 to 2018, he targeted himself with more than 200 snake locations and more than 650 poisonous inquiries. Its purpose: To get a full immunity from poison, this is a dangerous process known as Methodetism.

After a couple of years, he began to believe that his hypertensive blood could prove to be the basis of a high anti -one.

For years, the self -educated poison chemistry, which does not have a university degree, struggled with the scientific community to achieve traction. His claims were often met with doubts, if not dismissed. But last month, it all changed.

A groundwater research published in the Journal Cell has endorsed the Freddy -decade -long sacrifice.

Research has revealed that its blood -related antibodies offer protection against the vast field of snake poisoning. This amazing discovery has now incited a shock of hope among the researchers that Freddy’s unique hypertension could potentially pave the way for a universal anti -one development, a medical development that can save countless lives around the world.

This will meet a major need as currently most anti -one covers only one or some of the world’s 600 toxic snakes.

According to the World Health Organization, 138,000 people are killed by snack bytes in a year, while 400,000 are eliminated or other disability.

It is believed that these figures are considered to be largely less because the victims of the snake byte are usually in the poor, remote areas.

First snake

When he was five years old, Freddy’s first bite did not hurt.

“I was afraid, I cried, I ran,” Freddy said, now 57.

Then he started to bring the snakes home and hide it in the pot of pickles. His mother tried to consult, but his interest in the snakes remained.

After Freddy attended a class, matters increased, in which he was taught how “milk” snakes are for his poison. There has been little change in how anti -vanom is made in the last 125 years.

Small foods of snake poison are injected into horses such as animals, which produce antibodies that can be extracted and used as anti -one.

However, this anti-one usually works only to cut this specific species of snakes-and contain other horse antibodies, which can cause serious side effects, including inflatory shocks.

“I thought, okay, if they make anti -vanom in horses, why can’t I use myself as just a Permate?” Freddy said.

He began to work with all the deadly species that he could get with his own hands, such as Cobras, Taipeans, Black Mambas and Retlesonx.

“Every time there is trouble,” he said.

Antibodies

For many years, scientists who contacted them to take advantage of their immunity refused to cut.

Then in 2017, the immunologist Jacob Gulin Will, who had previously worked on universal vaccines, turned his attention to anti -one.

Gillen Willy told AFP that he was “looking for a clumsy snake researcher who was accidentally a bit of an accident,” when he came out a video of Freddy when he was brutally taking a snake cut from behind.

When he first spoke, Gulnhew said he said to Freddy: “I know it’s strange, but I would love to raise some of your blood.”

“I’ve been waiting for this call for a long time,” said Gillenwell.

The anti -one described in the cellpaper includes two antibodies, as well as a drug, called Worsepladeb.

It offered full protection of mice in which 13 of the 19 snake species were tested, and the remaining six had partial protection.

Researchers hope that a cocktail in the future will cover more snakes – especially wipers, with running more cases on dogs in Australia.

Timothy Jackson of the Australian Venom Research Unit praised immunological research, but asked whether a human need to join it, pointing to artificially manufactured antibodies.

Gillenwell said the ultimate goal of his US -based firm Santox is to develop a universal anti -one -wide manufacture, like an Epipin, which is likely to be developed in India to keep costs low.

Freddy said he was “proud” to make a “small difference” in medical history.

Now, working for Saints, Fred, in 2018, stopped himself with poisoning in 2018 to protect the firm from responsibility.

But he hopes that in the future he will try to cut through snakes.

“I miss it,” he said.