El hombre que se dejó morder cientos de veces por serpientes venenosas puede llevar al antídoto universal

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00:00Black Mamba

00:03I take it out and I basically let it bite my arm

00:16And the reason I do that is for shock reality

00:20To bring awareness for snake bite

00:22Nobody wants to see me just inject a lethal dose

00:25That's boring

00:26So what I did is I intentionally got bit

00:29To prove a point and film it

00:31To represent the people that die from snake bite

00:34I wasn't looking to be a YouTube star or anything like that

00:38It's all about the science for me, 100%

00:41In this study, what we're really excited about are two things

00:46First, we might have a working cocktail that could be developed in a few years

00:49But also, it shows what the human immune system can do

00:53We have antibodies producing a human

00:56That might save other humans moving forwards

00:58In terms of a universal anti-venom

01:02I picked the most dangerous ones in the world

01:03Black Mambas, Taipans, Cobras, Crepes, Coral Snakes, Rattlesnakes

01:08I couldn't get every single snake I wanted to have

01:11Some you just can't get

01:14And I don't like taking stuff out of the wild

01:15So I had to pick and choose

01:18I just realized that people die from snake bites

01:24And I wasn't dying

01:25So at that point I decided I have to reach out to every scientist on the planet

01:29I basically created a procedure that allowed broad recognition

01:32That many, many different toxins are moving forward

01:35And that recognition allowed him to be protected from snake bites

01:39And what we're hoping to do is take that same protection

01:42But not have to have everyone undergo 18 years of immunization and snake bites ultimately