Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous ...

Tim Friede turned his body into a testing ground. Not for science, at first—but for survival. He was a truck mechanic in ...

Friede, a former truck mechanic with no formal scientific training, had been fascinated by snakes since childhood.

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

Californian autodidact herpetologist Tim Friede has spent the last two decades deliberately injecting himself with hundreds ...

Blood from a former construction and factory worker — and self-taught herpetologist — could hold the key to a universal ...

A Wisconsin man voluntarily injected himself with snake venom and let various snakes bite him for 20 years. His blood may ...

Over the course of 17 years, a man named Tim Friede, allowed himself to be bitten by deadly snakes like black mambas and ...

PREMIUM Self-taught snake enthusiast Tim Friede. (Instagram photo) Behind that clinical language lies the story of Tim Friede, a self-taught snake enthusiast from Wisconsin whose obsession might ...