Because horse blood is so valuable to the manufacturing process, one bag of horse blood can cost as much as $500. Plasma is separated from the blood, then the antibodies are extracted from the ...

Scientists in Costa Rica are injecting venom into horses to create antibodies to treat humans bitten by snakes. Veterinarians at the Clodomiro Picado Institute breed poisonous snakes and extract their ...

Two-year-old wild horse roaming North Carolina’s Outer Banks dies after a venomous snake bite becomes severely infected, according to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund. The horse was hospitalized a week.

Horses injected with snake venom "produce powerful antibodies that can bind to snake venom components, enabling our own immune defences to eliminate these toxins," according to WHO.