Some folks around here get a snake bite vaccine for their dogs, does it work? do they have one for people? We have some areas with good fishing and good bird hunting that alot of folks avoid because of Rattle snakes.

My sister lives in central Tx. Kills rattlers in her yard frequently. She swears by the vaccine, her dogs have been bitten three? times without lasting injury. I don't know if there is a vaccine for people, don't think so.

There are anti venom shots for being bitten and some people who deal and study venomous snakes who get bitten a lot
seem to build up a small immunity to certain ones.

I've never read or heard of a vaccine for them though.

Some canines seem to not be bothered to much by certain snake bites, but I think it's more of how much venom they take verse's a real strong release on a good bite !

Hmmm, I wonder if that product contains Snake Oil...

Herpers who regularly handle hots can also build up life threatening allergies as well. I recall one case of a guy who regularly handled spitting cobras, never got hit but developed anaphylaxis allergy from prolonged exposure to aerosolized venom.

Another interesting case. Did you know rattlesnake venom can be safely consumed? It's a blood toxin and must be injected the stomach can handle it, usually.
There's was a professor down at Awburn who who begin his lectures milking a rattler then sipping venom during. That was until the day he discovered he had a bleeding ulcer.

Or least that's how it was told to me.

That’s true and then in some places snake venom is consumed as an afrodiack mixed with alcohol, I n Hong Kong there are snake bars ( there illegal) that operate kind of like the old speak easys where you go pick out the snake you want any from a cage they milk it chop the head off then mix the blood, venom and alcohol together which they give you to drink then cook up the rest of the snake in a dish of your choice

Most of the snakes I seen were Asian cobras, at the time I did not know that cobra venom is a Nero toxin afecting the nerveos system not like rattle snake venom which affects the blood so when the woman I was dating took me there and wanted us to do it I did

Was diffenatly a strange feeling kind and f a general numbness and tingling sensation that lasted a couple days

Nitelife, with all due respect, you and I will never party together! And I like to party.