Why is there no Coral snake antivenom
I understand why they stopped making it,it was not profitable and Coral snakes are hard to find and hard to deal with.So few people get bit by them that a molyvalent antivenom does not make money.
But why don't they mix the Coral snake into the cocktail for america's polyvalent antivenoms like crofab and anavip.They will make so much money on the pit viper bites that the minor loss on Coral snake milking will be easily absorbed.There is plenty of precident for mixing viper and elapid venoms in horses and such,most of the worlds other antivenoms mix viper and elapids together and work just fine.
the problem with antivenom is more the availibility of good antivenom not the quality of it and so cheap low quality antivenoms flood the market.But most of the cheap antivenoms are molyvalent or just work on a couple of snakes.Fav afrique worked well untill it was taken off the market because no one could afford it in rural areas where there was a lot of snake bit.this antivenom mixed vipers and elapids and worked quite well,doctors without borders loved it.
So you can see there is no real reason why there is no Coral snake antivenom,its just stupidity
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