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Maroc Maroc - WN.COM - Environment - 29/Oct 17:16

The secret ingredient in a snake antivenom? Llamas.

Most of today’s snakebite antivenoms are far from perfect. Typically manufactured from animal blood plasma, the antidotes often remain expensive, inconsistent, and difficult to scale across multiple snake species. But a new approach detailed today in the journal Nature may finally offer a major step forward to save countless lives, particularly in the world’s most rural and impoverished areas. According to one international research team’s recent findings, an antivenom superingredient exists in llamas and alpacas. An elapid emergency Venomous snakes account for around 10 percent of the estimated 4,000 known species in the world. Of those, only about 360 of them fall within the Elapidae...

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