Meet The Man Who Injects Snake Venom In His Body.
Bill Haast, a Florida man, injected snake venom into his blood to immunize himself from deadly bites. He was bitten over 172 times by usually deadly snakes but survived each time. He lived to be 100 years old.
He was born on December 30th 1910, he was the operator of Miami Serpentarium, a tourist centre in the south of Miami, Florida from 1947-1984 where he extracted venom from snakes in front of customers who will pay. He has been extracting venom from snakes since when he is a boy.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, Bill Haasst has been bitten 175 times in mid-2028 and he survived the most deadly snake bite which he did not even count as a distinction.
Haast became interested in snakes when he was bitten by a snake at boy scout summer camp. In the same year, he was bitten by a copperhead which got him hospitalized for a week.
When he started collecting snakes, he faced opposition from his mother but extracted his first snake venom when he was 15 years old.
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In 1965, the Serpentarium had more than 500 snakes in 400 cages and three pits in the courtyard. He extracted venom 70 to 100 times a day from 60 species of venomous snakes, always in front of his paying customers. Haast will free the snakes on a table in front of him, then catch the snake's bare hands and force them to eject their venom into glass vials with a rubber layer spread across the top.
He started supplying venom to University researchers in 1949 at the University of Miami for an experiment in the treatment of polio.
The Serpentarium was closed down in 1984 and he moved down to Utah.
Haast established Miami Serpentarium Laboratories in 1990. His hands suffered venom-caused tissue damage, culminating in the loss of a finger following a bite from a Malayan pit viper in 2003. As a result of the damage, Haast gave up handling venomous snakes and no longer kept any at his facility but he continued to inject venom into his body. He died on 15 June 2011 at the age of 100.
