How Does Rattlesnake Antivenom Work?
Venomous snake bites may be treated with Antivenom. Snake antivenins are a man-made biological product called anti-ophidic serum. Anivenin serum treatment are based on the vaccine process developed by Louis Pasteur, the famous French microbiologist & chemist. He is credited with many notable scientific achievements in the field of chemistry and was perhaps one of the greatest scientists of the 18th century to study “germ warfare”. The study of microrganisms contaminating milk and fermenting beverages by Louis Pasteur led to the process we know today as pastuerization which involves heating these liquids to kill bacteria & molds. Louis Pasteur was the first scientist to bring us the rabies vaccine which is still used to fight that dreaded disease to this day through a series of therapeutic inoculations. Snake Antivenom is effective on most snake bite victims, but only if administered within an extremely narrow windo
