I just heard zoos keep stocks of antivenom for all their venomous snakes. Reminded me of movies where you needed a sample of venom to make the stuff. How does anti-venom work and how is it made?

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I just heard zoos keep stocks of antivenom for all their venomous snakes. Reminded me of movies where you needed a sample of venom to make the stuff. How does anti-venom work and how is it made?

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Actually they don’t keep it at the zoo. It needs to be fresh. At the zoo where my daughter handles rattlesnakes they have an emergency button that calls the hospital and all the emergency services and the person bitten is rushed to the hospital.

I definitely asked her the procedure. She confidently told me “ The emergency button calls EVERYONE”.

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