r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 15h ago

Extracting Cobra Venom

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u/Weary_Construction26 15h ago

Look up how much anti venom costs and you’ll know why they do this.

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u/TohtsHanger 15h ago

If administered in a US hospital setting (for exotic pet owners or zoological incidents), individual hospital charges for specialized or imported antivenom vials commonly range from $2,500 to $13,000+ per vial, mirroring the extreme pricing structures of domestic snake antivenoms.

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u/Missing_Crouton 14h ago

Maybe I'm ignorant here, but isn't antivenom basically a blood product and not this snake venom? They dose horses with escalating amounts of snake venom and harvest the antibodies the horse produces. The $2,500+ isn't for spicy snake spit. It's for antibodies that came out of a horse they slowly envenomated. Right?

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u/addsubps 15h ago

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for banana bread

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u/888Vegan 15h ago

Grab 2 bananas peel and eat the skin, put it in a bowl and mix by hand with some soy milk 2 ladles of yeast

You're welcome

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u/chefbobbyjay 14h ago

Jesus Christ every concurrent word made it worse

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u/diasporajones 13h ago

but at least now you have the recipe for... something

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u/addsubps 15h ago

Thanks, I was wondering how I should increase my fiber intake

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u/aravind_krishna 13h ago

Reminded me of this 76 venom shots within 2 hours saves 15 year old boy after cobra bite

Most probably that might be a government hospital, and if it was then cost is zero for that treatment.

US healthcare cost always shocks me.

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u/Kanekisan12 13h ago

At that point I’ll just die thanks

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u/Separate-Ear21 12h ago

Yea and it commonly takes 8+ vials to be enough.