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Poison From Australia's Deadliest Creatures Used For Medical Research
Poison From Australia's Deadliest Creatures Used For Medical Research
Cape York Truly is The Poisonous Tip of Australia.
BBC 9 APR 2023
Liam Bartlett was on assignment in Australia's remote north, where the waters teem with deadly marine creatures - box jellyfish, sea snakes...
Guides on this adventure were a bunch of gungho scientists who risk everything to milk these deadly animals for their venom.
They're convinced this highly toxic poisons may in fact hold the key to incredible medical breakthroughs. All very well, but getting these nasty critters to part with their venom is not for the faint-hearted.
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