Do HOT keepers generally milk them?

[candyraver69]

I am surprised to hear it's not more lucrative. I know it's very dangerous and takes a lot of snakes to produce a small amount of antivenin, but I get TV sensationalizes it a bit and I was under the impression it could make good money.

However, I agree, the real virtue is in the lives you could help save. It saddens me that there are not more companies able to be working on it. So many hoops to jump through that people with good intentions loose hope and give up I suppose.

I can't imagine why in other less regulated countries it isn't done more though. I know that a centrifuge is cost prohibitive to most people, but I imagine the market for antivenin is pretty high in some places. Come on there has to be some dumb American tourists getting bit regularly in certain areas willing to fork out big money? LOL