{"id":22781,"date":"2025-05-02T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/universal-antivenom-may-grow-out-of-man-who-let-snakes-bite-him-hundreds-of-times\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:08:22","slug":"universal-antivenom-may-grow-out-of-man-who-let-snakes-bite-him-hundreds-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/universal-antivenom-may-grow-out-of-man-who-let-snakes-bite-him-hundreds-of-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him Hundreds of Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The video is just under two and a half minutes long. A slim man with close-cropped hair walks into a room, pulls a long black mamba \u2014 whose venom can kill within an hour \u2014 from a crate and allows it to bite his left arm. Immediately after, he lets a taipan from Papua New Guinea bite his right arm. \u201cThanks for watching,\u201d he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bG1YadH8Q2E\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">calmly tells the camera<\/a>, his left arm bleeding, and then exits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over nearly 18 years, the man, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to build his immunity to 16 deadly snake species. He also allowed the snakes \u2014 mostly one at a time, but sometimes two, as in the video \u2014 to sink their sharp fangs into him about 200 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This bit of daredevilry (one name for it) may now help to solve <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/06\/health\/africa-snakebite-treatment-access.html\" title=\"\">a dire global health problem<\/a>. More than 600 species of venomous snakes roam the earth, biting as many as 2.7 million people, killing about 120,000 people and maiming 400,000 others \u2014 numbers thought to be vast underestimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Mr. Friede\u2019s blood, scientists say they have identified antibodies that are capable of neutralizing the venom of multiple snake species, a step toward creating a universal antivenom, they reported on Friday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(25)00402-7\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in the journal Cell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m really proud that I can do something in life for humanity, to make a difference for people that are 8,000 miles away, that I\u2019m never going to meet, never going to talk to, never going to see, probably,\u201d said Mr. Friede, who lives in Two Rivers, Wis., where venomous snakes are not much of a threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While deforestation, human sprawl and climate change have heightened the danger from snake attacks in recent years, research on antivenom has not kept pace with demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a bigger problem than the first world realizes,\u201d said Jacob Glanville, founder and chief executive of Centivax, a company that aims to produce broad-spectrum vaccines, and lead author on the study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Glanville and his colleagues found that two powerful antibodies from Mr. Freide\u2019s blood, when combined with a drug that blocks neurotoxins, protected mice from the venom of 19 deadly snake species of a large family found in different geographical regions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is an extraordinary feat, according to experts not involved in the work. Most antivenoms can counter the venom from just one or a few related snake species from one region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study suggests that cocktails of antitoxins may successfully prevent deaths and injuries from all snake families, said Nicholas Casewell, a researcher at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe principles of this study can definitely be applied to other snakes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Friede\u2019s first snake encounter, a harmless bite by a garter snake at age 5, started a lifelong fascination. \u201cIf I only knew back then what was going to happen,\u201d he recalled, laughing uproariously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he didn\u2019t begin dabbling with snakes in earnest until he was married with children and working in construction. He began experimenting with scorpions around the year 2000, but quickly switched to snakes. At one point, his basement lab housed 60 venomous snakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His experiments nearly ended soon after they began. On Sept. 12, 2001, crazed by the terrorist attack of the previous day and by the death of a friend a few days earlier, he let himself be bitten by two cobras. They were his first bites by live snakes, and he had not built up enough immunity. He was fine after the first bite, but after the second, he felt cold, his eyes started to droop and he couldn\u2019t talk. He blacked out and woke up from a coma in a hospital four days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His wife was furious, but he was angrier with himself. He vowed to become more methodical in his work, carefully measuring out doses of venom and timing his bites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019d work all day, come home, play with the kids and the family, and go downstairs and do my stuff all night long, wake up and do it again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There were other mishaps \u2014 accidental bites, anaphylactic shocks, hives, blackouts. Mr. Friede describes himself as a nondegree scientist, but \u201cthere\u2019s no college in the world that can teach you how to do it,\u201d he said. \u201cI was doing it on my own as best I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two teams of scientists sampled Mr. Friede\u2019s blood over the years, but neither project led anywhere. By the time he met Dr. Glanville, in 2017, he was nearly ready to give up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Glanville had been pursuing what scientists call broadly acting antibodies as the basis for universal vaccines against viruses. He grew up in a Maya village in the Guatemala highlands, and became intrigued by the possibility of using the same approach for universal antivenom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At first, he said, he had a \u201chumble\u201d goal of finding someone like a clumsy snake researcher who had been bitten a couple of times. But then he came across news articles about Mr. Friede.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for this call for a long time,\u201d Dr. Glanville recalls Mr. Friede as saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In collaboration with Peter Kwong, an immunologist at Columbia University, Dr. Glanville isolated broadly acting antibodies from Mr. Friede\u2019s blood and created the combination treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers tested antibodies from Mr. Friede\u2019s blood against venom from 19 snake species. One broadly neutralizing antibody they identified protected mice from six of the species. Adding a small molecule called varespladib<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em>and a second antibody fully protected mice against 13 snake species, and provided a partial defense against the remaining six.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cobras and mambas produce toxins that paralyze neurons. Venom from snakes in the viper family rips up tissues, causing victims to bleed to death. Each snake species within those families produces a distinct <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/09\/science\/cobra-venom-genome.html\" title=\"\">blend<\/a> of dozens of toxins, and the venom even within a species <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S187439192100155X?via%3Dihub\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">can vary<\/a> by region, age, diet and season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But antivenom is made much the same way it was 130 years ago when it was first produced. A small amount of venom is pumped into a horse, camel or sheep, and the antibodies produced in response are harvested. The antibodies tend to be specific to the type of venom injected, and do little to ease symptoms from other types of snakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many antivenoms, in fact, may pose more serious problems than venom itself, because the proteins from the mammal may trigger a deadly allergic shock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists are pursuing treatments that would avoid this side effect. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-19981-6\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cocktails<\/a> of small molecule drugs and monoclonal antibodies \u2014 artificially made copies of powerful human antibodies \u2014 against the most important toxin families may be able to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32564899\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">neutralize the venom<\/a> of many species, Dr. Casewell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers next plan to test the treatment in Australia in any dogs that are brought into veterinary clinics for snakebites. They are also hoping to identify another component, perhaps also from Mr. Friede\u2019s blood, that would extend full protection to all 19 snake species that were subjects of the research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Friede himself is done now, however. His last bite was in November 2018, from a water cobra. He was divorced \u2014 his wife and children had moved out. \u201cWell, that\u2019s it, enough is enough,\u201d he recalled thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He misses the snakes, he said, but not the painful bites. \u201cI\u2019ll probably get back into it in the future,\u201d he said. \u201cBut for right now, I\u2019m happy where things are at.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/02\/health\/snakes-universal-antivenom-tim-friede.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video is just under two and a half minutes long. 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