Divorced Tim Friede, 37, has self-inflicted more than 160 bites in 16 years of research and is hoping his experiments will help to develop a human vaccine for snake bites.To prove his self-immunisation theory works he recently took back-to-back bites from two of the world’s deadliest snakes – a taipan and a black mamba whose bite can kill in minutes.Tim said: “I’m probably the only person in the world who can take a bite back-to-back from these snakes and live.“My arms were killing me after the bites, there is a real throbbing sensation but I felt great.“I don’t think there are many people who could take those bites singular – let alone back-to-back.” Unsurprisingly, his obsession with saving the tens of thousands of lives lost every year to snakebites has nearly killed him on a number of occasions and also cost him his marriage. -
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