AFP/GOOGLE NEWS/ In a lab near San Jose, researchers raise 800 snakes so deadly that their name Matabuey means "ox killer." Scientists raise the snakes to harvest venom for life-saving antivenom supplies. The poison is extracted from the snakes three or four times per year. It makes about 100,000 doses of snake antivenom, which is sold throughout the Americas, Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Taiwan.
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