Brazil milks deadly snakes for their life-saving venom
(World News Brazil)

1 of 10 Brazilian expert Eliane Campos de Oliveira holds a jar with of preserved rattlesnakes at the Butantan Institue -which supplies the Ministry of Health, with many snakes` venom for its ditribution countrywide- in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 12, 2019. In 2018 nearly 29,000 people were bitten by snakes in Brazil, of which over a hundred were killed. Most of the cases were in the vast and remote Amazon basin, far away from hospitals stocked with antivenom. / AFP / CARL DE SOUZA Image Credit: AFP 2 of 10 An expert holds a rattlesnake after venom was extracted from it at the Butantan Institue -which supplies the Ministry of Health, with many snakes` venom for its ditribution countrywide-...