VIDEO: Deadly Snakes help medical research

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Deadly snakes help medical research

January 9th, 2015 at 01:55 GMT clock Last updated

Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have taken on a project addressed in order to develop an antidote against any dangerous snake bite in sub-Saharan Africa.

Snake bites killing at least 30,000 people a year in the area, so that many more severely disabled.

But in order to create the antidote, the team has to "milk" the venom from each of the more than 400 poisonous snakes in his laboratory.

Here, the scientist in charge of the project of the Medical Research Council, Dr. Robert Harrison is financed explains how the poison extraction of some of the deadliest reptiles Africa could save thousands of lives.

Journalists Video: Victoria Gill and Stephen Fildes

Stills with Doctors Without Borders (MSF permission)

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