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222: The Antivenom Conspiracy

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How to Get Snake Venom From a Snake

There's snakes have different kinds of fangs, obviously. If you've got certain species of steak that have their fangs, uh, my farts are back in their mouth, you can get specialist things or use a kind of tube to do it. Um, they also for really dangerous ones, they might anesthetize them and knock them out so they don't like, you know, get all aggressive while trying to milk them. So I think you get like a milliliter a day from one snake. How long does it take to get say a pint of coral snake venom? Oh God. Like, like a year.

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