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 ...

According to the World Health Organisation, roughly 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes each year, resulting in between 83,000-138,000 deaths.

In this process, horses are injected with a small and carefully controlled amount of snake venom. Their immune system responds by naturally generating antibodies to fight the venom.

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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.