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Snake Safety Training

A Pennsylvania couple has started a business to supplement company’s safety trainings with rattlesnake specific information: Bob Zumstein has been lecturing on timber rattlesnakes for years and recently had been invited to talk to two Marcellus Shale companies about where workers might encounter these venomous suckers and what they should do if they spot one. […]

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New Biz Making Anti-Venom for Pets

Flagstaff Business News: According to the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Arizona is home to the most dangerous rattlesnakes, spiders, lizards, and scorpions in the nation. So it is appropriate that researcher and veterinarian Dr. Craig Woods of BioVeteria Life Sciences chose Prescott, AZ as the home of his new business venture. BioVeteria is a

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Using Rattlesnakes Fight Cancer

Popular Science: An Irish company is using four American diamondback rattlesnakes in a new clinical trial that will test snake venom as a treatment for cancer. The snakes, which hail from the Albuquerque BioPark, will be allowed to bite something and have their venom extracted humanely. The venom contains proteins that will be extracted and

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