What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Tim would know.

More than 80,000 people globally die every year from snake bites, according to the World Health Organization. But Tim Friede ...

Tim Friede, a 57-year-old former truck mechanic, spent 18 years subjecting himself to snake bites and venom injections in an attempt to immunize himself against deadly venom. Rese ...

In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. He started with venomous cobras because they're dangerous — and because they're what he had on ...

Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.

The antitoxin antibodies found in the blood of a Wisconsin man—who voluntarily let snakes bite him for alm0st 20 years—is ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

Learn about the herpetologist who put himself on the line for the sake of scientific discovery and innovation.

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

Scientists are developing a universal anti-venom from a man's blood who has voluntarily injected himself with venom since ...

Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites. Friede has long had a ...

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.