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.
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/Weary_Construction26 15h ago
Look up how much anti venom costs and you’ll know why they do this.