Andy Adcock
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I genuinely don't see a practical, catch all, answer to this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-45332002
As someone who's done his fare share of travelling in remote areas where snakes are always, potentially an issue, you know, if you do get bitten by anything nasty, remoteness is the killer as much as the lack of a suitable antivenom. You simply won't get timely treatment, whoever you are.
Well known sound recordist Peter Boesman lost a leg to a Bushmaster when he was travelling, it can happen to any of us.
They also mention costs, relative to a Swazi farmer, AFAIK, most antivenoms need to be kept refrigerated so even if free antivenoms were doled out, this assumes that the Swazi farmer has both power and a fridge. Then there's the conundrum of which antivenom to give out, many areas have numerous, potential killers which would need an accurate ID at the time of the incident to administer the correct antivenom.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-45332002
As someone who's done his fare share of travelling in remote areas where snakes are always, potentially an issue, you know, if you do get bitten by anything nasty, remoteness is the killer as much as the lack of a suitable antivenom. You simply won't get timely treatment, whoever you are.
Well known sound recordist Peter Boesman lost a leg to a Bushmaster when he was travelling, it can happen to any of us.
They also mention costs, relative to a Swazi farmer, AFAIK, most antivenoms need to be kept refrigerated so even if free antivenoms were doled out, this assumes that the Swazi farmer has both power and a fridge. Then there's the conundrum of which antivenom to give out, many areas have numerous, potential killers which would need an accurate ID at the time of the incident to administer the correct antivenom.