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222: The Antivenom Conspiracy

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The History of Snakenado

In 1890, he met Louis Pasteur. He was impressed by all the stuff that he was working on. So in Saigon, you know, 40 people were bitten and he was like, Oh, wow, that sucks. There's nothing we can do about this yet because it is 1890s or 1890, whatever. Then he successfully managed to make an anti-Cobra serum,. It says here, in 1894 in rabbits. And it was he basically kind of based his work on vaccines, like early vaccines. The idea of like a vaccine is giving you a little bit. I mean, okay, I'm going to simplify vaccines to the point of ridiculousness. Yes.

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