Jim Harrison, co-director of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, said he was bitten by a 'highly venomous' Jameson's mamba snake while ...

A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

The man was found to have undertaken "escalating doses" from 16 snake species so lethal they "would normally a kill a horse." ...

POWELL COUNTY, Ky. ( WKYT /Gray News) - A reptile zoo owner in Kentucky is recovering after being bitten on his hand by a ...

Tim Friede, a former truck mechanic, intentionally subjected himself to numerous snakebites over two decades, aiming to ...

Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...

Californian autodidact herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself with hundreds ...

A man who has been injecting himself with snake venom for the past 18 years has now been used to create the most broadly ...

US' Tim Friede endured 200 venomous snake bites over 18 years to build immunity-now, antibodies in his blood may help ...

Researchers may have found the key to creating the ultimate snake antivenom, and all it took was someone getting bitten 200 ...

Consider the painful and potentially lethal consequences of falling into a pool filled with highly venomous snakes.