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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 27338871" data-attributes="member: 562115">No idea... There are studies on Cats vs Dogs - that's because household pets get bitten mostly.But FYI, will quote the WHO stats.<h4>There Are About 5.4 Million Snakebites Worldwide Every Year.</h4>Out of those, 2.7 million involve envenoming.  Sadly, between 81,000 to 138,000 people die from a snake bite annually. Also, there are about 400,000 amputations due to snake bites. In India alone between 2000 - 2019 there were 1.2  million snake bite deaths - that's an average of 58,000 deaths per year. Then comes Africa. It's a big problem.Antivenom is not available for all these different types of snake bites.Note : However the antivenom technology is moving on thanks to the mRNA. Pls read below - copied from one of my old posts."Anti-venoms are purified antibodies against venoms or venom components. First of all, the venom is obtained from the snakes by milking and other creatures by invasive techniques. Then small doses of venom is injeted into an animal, and the dose gradually increased as the animal builds up a tolerance to the venom. The animal produces antibodies to the venom. When the doses being injected are large, the amount of antibody produced is large.These antibodies are harvested by taking blood off from the animals and separating out the antibodies followed by a purification process.These are subsequently injected into a patient, and the binding sites on the antibody fragments bind to the venoms thus neutralising effect. This technique is very old and used since the 1890s.But, somewhere around 2015, scientists found that the mRNA encoding the toxins in snakebite venom can be recovered directly from venom. This paved the way for the feasibility of using venom-derived RNA for future antivenom applications. At that time the mRNA stabilizing over long term and purification were not advanced like today but the ideas and the work continued. This method has the advantage that all you need is the venom, without any harm to the poisonous creature or the use of an animal to develop antibodies.The mRNA will function just like the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines for the body to produce antibodies for the venom.That's the two major differences in the mRNA and the anti-venom approach.Note that the mRNA technology is not limited only for Covid vaccines. Cancer vaccines, Protein replacement therapy – A wide range of diseases can be treated using mRNA to express proteins- the lungs, liver, and heart - Gene therapy, Cell reprogramming etc.The Covid epidemic will accelerate the developments in all these areas as the fear of mRNA has gone away."</blockquote>

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