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Originally posted by hammer4all
Antivenin is extremely expensive. I watched a TV program on snake bites recently (I think it was on the Discovery Channel or something) and they said it can cost like 10-20k per vial and it usually takes 4-5 vials to stop the venom.
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10-20K a vial seems rather inflated. This article suggests it is more like a thousand. Why it should cost 10-20K - I cannot see the justification for that...
http://www.firefighting.com/articles...asp?namID=3661
Another site gave a figure of $600 for rattlesnake anti-venom.