American’s blood contains a universal snake antidote

London. The blood of a man from the US, who for almost two decades has injected snake poison and has been bitten several times, contains, according to scientists, « unrivaled » antidote.

According to scientific research, Tim Fried’s blood antibodies protect against fatal doses of a wide range of snake poisons. Informed about the BBC website.

He wanted to grow immunity

The bite of the poisonous snake kills up to 140,000 people annually and other cases end with amputation or permanent disability.

According to previously successful animal tests, they could be helped by Mr. Frieda’s blood antibodies.

Over the age of 18, he has mastered more than 200 bite and more than 700 poison injections, which he prepared from some of the saddest snake poisons, including the Masters, Cobiers or Tajpanov.

Initially, he wanted to create immunity himself to protect himself when handling snakes. The former truck mechanic sometimes swept it and, for example, fell into a coma for two cobra bite quickly in a row.

« It became a lifestyle, and I just tried and tried and tried as much as I was rule. For people who are 8000 miles away from me and who die of bite a snake, » he explained.

Extraordinary antibodies

« Tim’s antibodies are really extraordinary – he taught his immune system to achieve this very, very wide recognition, » said Peter Kwong, one of the researchers at Colombian University.

The family of the beads have a beaded neurotoxins, which paralyze the victim and die when the respiratory muscles stop.

The family of virals has mainly hemotoxins in the time that attack blood. There are about a dozen toxins, including cytotoxins that directly kill cells.

« I think we will have something effective against each of these toxins in the next 10 or 15 years, » said Professor Kwong.

Current anti -ejeyes must correspond to a particular type of poisonous snake. They are obtained by processing the blood of horses whose immune system fights poison by production of antibodies.

In the case of some snake species, its efficacy is reduced if it was made of a poison obtained in another region.