A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped create a new antivenom

Tim Friede remembers his worst snakebites in screaming detail.

The first was from an Egyptian cobra. The second, an hour later, from a monocled cobra. Both bites occurred at his home in Wisconsin. Both were from highly venomous snakes. Neither bite was an accident.

Friede let the cobras bite him on purpose ­­— now, he’s logged 202 snakebites, in total. “It always burns and it’s always, always painful,” he says.