Do hospitals just like know about all snakebites or is it part of like a special doctor training or do they just have like a snake expert doctor on staff. Do they have all the anti-venoms readily available or do you need to go to a special snake hospital.
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To add to what others have said, there are two types of antivenom. Monovalent, which is targeted against one type of venom, and polyvalent, which is effective against multiple. So, for example, I believe there is a single antivenon effective against all pit vipers. Which, IIRC, is 100+ species of snakes.
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