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Immunity to snakebite
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by Timber_Rattlesnake on February 17, 2002
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I read a book, and some guys have been bit by cobras and kraits and have survived.
And there is the guy who is bit by a copperhead and dies.
My science teacher said it was a person's immunity...how do you tell if you have immunity to a snake without actually being bitten and finding out the hard way?
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by Naja_oxiana on February 17, 2002
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Unless you are practicing hyper immunization (ahem, Tim?) then you are not immune to a snakebite. What I assume that you are thinking of some people in like, India who use some venoms to make tatoos. In doing this, they can build up an immunity. There are a small number of people here in the US who practice self-immunization but nobody is naturally immune to a venomous snake bite.
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Roger
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by Naja_oxiana on February 18, 2002
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I forgot to mention that once you are bitten, you can become more suseptable to an alergic reaction to the venom, or repeated bite treatments with antivenom can lead to an alergic reaction.
There are so many factors in bites that it can be mind boggling. Maybe the cobra gives a dry bite while the dr working on the fellow bit by the copperhead is getting treated by a dr who doesn't know what he's doing. Maybe the copperhead bite is in a vein and so the venom's progress through the vascular system is accelerated. Or perhaps the cobra discharges a massive ammount of venom and you die of respiratory paralysis in an hour and a half.
There are any number of variables, and scenarios. But aside from suseptability to an alergic reaction, it has nothing whatsoever to do with your immune system. (The obvious exception to this would be Bill Haast and Tim and a couple others, mentioned in my other post.) I concur with Vader: Time for a new science teacher. Better yet, why don't you stear your teacher to the artical on anaphylactic shock on this very website.
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Roger
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by TIMFRIEDE on February 18, 2002
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Well, I won't speak for your ST, because it came through you. If u SI there is no hard way, why do u do it? There are 2 ways to find out> 1. Take a hit(but, u don't know the migs injected). 2. Weigh out a human LD and inject it SC. With SI there is no hard way, only the way. I don't do it for sh!ts and giggles, I do it because I can. It use to be a insurance policy for me, but now it's a way of life and life is good. I've tested all methods and I'm still kicken hard-core. Your copperhead, cobra and krait talk makes no sense with immunity, is that u, or is that your teacher? Any Q's, young bucky, ask away and I will try. Timbo.
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by Timber_Rattlesnake on May 17, 2002
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Well,I think my science teacher was talking about self invenomating which increases your chance of survival when you actually get bitten (immunity)
As far as the guys and the bites, I can't find it anywhere now.....I might have been thinking about when As far as the people and tattoos....I was e-mailing a guy and he was self invenomating himself, and was telling me how to do it.
You just inject tiny amounts of venom into your bloodtsream...Anti-bodys are then made and therefore when you get bit you have a greater chance of suruvial.
If interested I could probally find the e-mails and tell you what its all about. But as far as I know I still have them.
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