Now he is searching for funding to build a pilot project to put the spray through clinical trials and eventually distribute a refined product in countries like India, where
snakebites cause thousands of deaths before victims can reach the hospital.
Every year,
snakebites kill up to 90,000 people, mostly in impoverished, rural tropical areas, as well as
causing thousands of debilitating injuries to survivors, in part the reason that
snakebite has the status of a neglected tropical disease.