Monday, 3 June 2019

The Man Who's Said 'Bite Me' to 200 Snakes and Survived

The Man Who's Said 'Bite Me' to 200 Snakes and Survived

Since 2000, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured some 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly two decades, few took him seriously. Then a gifted young immunologist stumbled upon Friede on YouTube—and became convinced that he was the key to conquering snakebites forever.

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