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by xvenomx on May 19, 2006
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According to Reptiles magazine, there are currently no U.S. producers of exotic snake antivenin. Why not?
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by BREEZER on May 19, 2006
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My personal oppinion once again. I have also asked that question many times for american viper AV here in South Africa. Allot of the answers where that it would not be cost effective! The reason being that very few people keep exotic venomous snakes, and even fewer get bitten. It is an expensive exercise to make Anti-venom. So if Anti venom would have to be produced at an expense, very little people got bitten, paired with a expiery date for on the AV, then it just would not be cost effective.
Just my thought.
Quintin (Breezer)
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by MattHarris on May 19, 2006
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You pretty much nailed it on the head. It's about $$$, plain and simple. Its much easier to Spend $1000 for a personal supply of exotic A/V.
MH
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by Chris_Harper on May 19, 2006
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Who and where would the market be? Areas of the world with the highest snakebite problems are virtually if not all 3rd world countries. Obviously, the profit margin wouldn't be enough to sustain manufacturing within the US.
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by tj on May 20, 2006
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Both hit the nail on the head. In order for a company to produce AV in the US, it would need FDA approval.
As with any other drug, it could take 10 years to finally produce it effectively and have it approved, which means millions of dollars. For only a few handfuls of exotic bites in the US, there isn't a company that would do it, simply because they wouldn't even make their money back that they put into R&D. There just isn't enough demand to warrant spending the money on it.
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by xvenomx on May 22, 2006
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The reason I was thinking about this was,the law makers might be more willing to revise their venomous laws, if the antivenin for exotic snakes was more readily available for U.S. keepers.
I know from personal experience that this is one of their main arguements against keeping exotics.
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