Poisonous snake bites without dying

Graeme Gow, owner of a farm of Australian reptiles that has been bitten by venomous snakes for up to 142 times, including three times in taipan inland (only Australia - considered the world's most poisonous snake) bites but still survived.

Graeme Gow with the snakes. (Photo: ecouniverse.com) Meanwhile, the one-time bite of this snake's venom can kill 127 people with an average weight of 80 kg. This is a strange phenomenon so far, surprising the scientists and going in to find out the truth. Through many studies, it was discovered that the phenomenon of snake venom resistance.

According to experts at the Royal Darwin Hospital (Australia) and the Central Research Center for Venom Research in the UK, the phenomenon of venom resistance is not only present in humans but also in other animals, especially species eat poisonous snakes. Not only are they resistant to venom, they can also consume a large amount of venom without harm. For example, marsupials in America and Australia, called Amer (opossium), can tolerate a number of rattles venom with toxins that can be fatal to other mammals, even only A small amount of horse fat is needed for a healthy horse. But strange thing is, if a cobra is bitten, Amer will die immediately.

Some snake carnivores are also resistant to snake venom as well as mongoose - a tropical predator, can eat a lot of different poisonous snakes, including tigers, rattlesnakes and alright. .

Poisonous snakes are also resistant to their own venom, although the levels are not uniform among species. Evidence is that there are poisonous snakes when fighting to steal prey or partners who have used their venom system to attack the enemy and get hit by the enemy, but their wounds are only swollen for a while then go away. With exceptional circumstances, poisonous snakes kill their own lives by biting their bodies and dying within a few hours. This phenomenon has so far not been explained by science.

The reason that poisonous snakes eat each other is nothing because their blood contains compounds called "protective factors" and it is believed that this factor can create a venom-resistant drug, called antivenene, helps people treat snake bites most effectively.

Saul Wei, an Australian poisonous snake expert, has conducted a series of tests to prove the resistance to venom, serving a research purpose to find an antibody that helps treat snakebite sufferers. In the study, he found a man named Charles Tanner at Alfred Melbourne Hospital, volunteering to be a test subject. This person injected him with a venom of cobra with a gradual increase from 0.002 mg to 25 mg, for a period of 13 months. The result when used at the highest dose, can kill 30 healthy people, Tanner's body remains unharmed.

This is a very strange phenomenon, no different from Graeme Gow's ability . It is still waiting for the solution from scientists with larger-scale research.