Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Each year, around 2.7M people are afflicted with poisonous snake bites. Enter, antivenom. Zoologist Yussef Rafik heads to the Liverpool School for Tropical Medicine to understand how exactly venom extraction works.

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