Tag: "antivenom"
Airline passenger helps save 7-year-old girl bitten by venomous krait in Vietnam
Vietnam News 10:40 03/03/2026A seven-year-old girl from Hue City in central Vietnam narrowly escaped death after being bitten by a Malayan krait while sleeping, in a race against the ‘golden 24 hours’ that was won only after five vials of antivenom were urgently airlifted from Ho Chi Minh City to Hue with the help of a volunteer airline passenger.
Man who let snakes bite him 200 times spurs new antivenom hope
World 09:02 09/06/2025Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world's deadliest snakes bite him.
