🐍The bite of a highly venomous snake can be fatal but usually treatable with antivenom, which is in short supply according to some vets and experts in South Africa. Making the antiserums is a laborious and energy-dependent process. The country’s only antivenom maker forces the reptiles to spit out their poison by making them bite into a glass jar. Small quantities of the toxins are then injected into horses, which over time develop immunity. Their plasma is then harvested and processed to make

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