Venomous snakes and beasts are things that ordinary people avoid for fear, but there are also some people who want to "face up to the difficulties" and challenge the unknown and fear. American scientist Bill Haast is such a person. For hobbies and research, he kept nearly 10,000 snakes in captivity, and was bitten by snakes 173 times in his life, of which at least 20 times were just short of death.
Haast was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1910 and has been interested in snakes since he was a child. When he was 12 years old, Hast went to the wild for a summer camp, during which he tried to catch a forest rattlesnake, but was bitten by it. This was the first time he was bitten by a snake.
When the fashionable and young Hast was very calm, he took the standard snake wound first aid procedure at the time, made a cross cut on the wound, smeared potassium permanganate, and then walked 4 miles to a nearby emergency camp for help. Fortunately, his injury quickly improved, so the doctor did not take any further treatment for him.
This incident did not affect Haast's enthusiasm in the slightest. When he was young, he ignored his mother's opposition and began to learn to catch and raise snakes. In the end, his mother was very helpless, so she agreed to raise a snake at home. When he was 15 years old, Hast had already started to extract venom from snakes. A year later, he dropped out of school and went to his fellow likes to run a snake exhibition hall.
Later, Hast met a girl named Ann at the Snake Exhibition Hall and eloped with her to Florida. Haast hopes to open a snake farm here to realize his dream and start working to accumulate wealth.
It didn't take long before the underground bar where Haster worked was confiscated by the Internal Revenue Service. And Ann was also pregnant with the two children, which caused Haast to "settle down" and re-plan his career.
Haast began to study aircraft repair and obtained a certificate 4 years later. Then he came to Miami and started working for Pan American World Airlines as a flight engineer. During his work, Hast picked up his "little hobby" again. He traveled around and smuggled local venomous snakes back to the United States and raised them.
Hast said in an interview later: "At that time, the law did not prohibit related things... but the crew members didn't like them.
By 1946, Hast felt that he had saved almost his money, so he sold the house, bought a piece of land next to South Miami Highway 1, and started building a snake farm. His wife, Ann, did not agree with him. The behavior of the two eventually led to their divorce. Hast obtained the custody of his son Bill, and started working for Pan American World Airlines while running his own "side business."
During this period, Ha Ster met his second wife Clarita Matthews (Clarita Matthews), and the two began to go through the nutrition snake farm together. In the first five years of opening, the only employees on the farm were Harst and Clarita Matthews. And his son Bill. But soon Bill also left the farm because he was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake 4 times while feeding a snake, and he lost his interest in snakes. He has raised nearly 10,000 snakes on the farm, including cobras, eastern green mamba, sea snakes, African tree snakes, rattlesnakes, ring snakes, tiger snakes, etc. These snakes can provide him with more than 200 venoms for research.
Haast often extracts snake fluid. He provides 36,000 venom samples to pharmaceutical laboratories every year to help scientific research. In addition, he also mixes the venom of 32 kinds of venomous snakes. Injected into his body once a day to enhance his immunity. He often flies around the world to donate his blood to some patients who have been bitten by poisonous snakes, hoping that the antibodies in the body can help treat them and save their lives.
Ha Sit claimed that he had been bitten by a snake 173 times, 20 of which were near death. But because the antibodies in his body are very strong, he does not need any anti-snake venom vaccine to get better.
In 1984, Haast closed the snake farm and moved to Utah to live for several years. Then he moved to Punta Gorda, Florida with the snakes, and established the Miami Snake Laboratory there. 2003 In 2000, Haast was accidentally bitten by a Malaysian viper and eventually lost a finger. After this injury, he gave up catching venomous snakes with his bare hands and stopped raising snakes in the laboratory. But he still did. Let his wife inject him with a small dose of snake venom,It lasted until 2008.
On June 15, 2011, Haast died of natural causes at his home in Punta Gorda, Florida, at the age of 100.
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