"For Atheris we all know about echis AV and the reports."



We do? And from what reports? The ones that say that there MAY be

some cross reactivity with A. squamiger and A. chlorechis in SOME cases? That's not an educated guess, that's taking a chance. Kinda like the doctor who thought he was making an educated guess by giving CroFab to the man in Ohio who was bitten by the rhino viper, who later died. Maybe the bites from the atheris weren't that serious and they didn't need AV in the first place. And maybe they were lucky enough not to have any side effects from the echis AV itself, which might have done nothing at all. There is NO real proof that echis AV neutralizes the venom from atheris. If there was, it would be used on a routine (albeit infrequent) basis for bites, and not on an it MAY work basis. If I'm wrong, please show some clinical proof from some serious envenomation reports, not something that is being passed around because a few doctors or a fireman says it works.

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