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Meet Bill Haast, director of
the Miami Serpentarium. Bill has been bitten by venomous snakes more
than 160 times and lived to tell the tale. But, as he points out, these
bites occurred over the course of many years and with more than 3
million handlings of snakes. When you spend your days around as many as
20,000 snakes, as Haast does, you're bound to end up on the wrong side
of a fang every now and then. |
Bill Haast has spent more
than 50 years working with venomous snakes. At the Serpentarium, Haast
"milks" his snakes by forcing the reptiles to release their venom into a
beaker. Then he sells the poisonous liquid both to medical researchers
and to the pharmaceutical companies that make antivenin, the antidote
for snake bites. |
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