Extracting Venom From Deadly Snakes | 24 Hours With | BBC Earth

Each year, around 2.7M people are afflicted with poisonous snake bites. Enter, antivenom. Zoologist Yussef Rafik heads to the Liverpool School for tropical Medicine to understand how exactly venom extraction works.

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