This Graun story is incredible: American man kept snakes in his basement and regularly had them bite him, or he injected himself with venom, and after twenty years he made himself immune to every venomous snake in the world.

Anaphylactic shock, coma, self-myectomy with a razor blade ... now his blood could help develop a universal antivenom.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/intentional-snakebites-antivenom

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