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Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous ...
Tim Friede joins ‘America Reports’ to share his story of enduring more than 200 snake bites and 700 venom injections to aid ...
Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...
Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.
Over the course of 17 years, a man named Tim Friede, allowed himself to be bitten by deadly snakes like black mambas and ...
Scientists have made a potent antivenom using antibodies from a man who has been bitten hundreds of times by venomous snakes.
The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...
Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...
Experts have long called for better ways to treat snakebites, which kill some 200 people a day, mainly in the developing ...
In today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes, Brad Spakowitz tells us more about Tim Friede, how he developed his hyper-immunity, and how his blood could lead to new, life-saving medical treatments.