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Steve Ludwin has injected venom for almost 30 years. He says it has health benefits and asserts it is the reason he hasn’t gotten a cold in 15 years. Steve’s eccentric immune response to the venom could lead to new scientific discoveries. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen are experimenting with Steve’s blood and antibodies to produce a new and cheaper kind of anti-venom. If their tests are successful, it could yield the first anti-venom derived from a human. Most anti-venom today is made by gathering antibodies from horses exposed to venom, and a single treatment can cost upwards of $2000.Every year 5.4 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes and among this figure 81000 to 138000 die. But Steve said as an advice, ” I really can’t stress enough how dangerous it is, and I wouldn’t want to encourage anybody to try and copy what I was doing because I’ve had many years experience and of having horrible accidents.”