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World Service,6 mins

Why I milk snakes for a living

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Paul Rowley milks snakes for a living, extracting their venom to for use in anti-venom research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK. He’s been bitten several times, but loves his job because of the lives it saves across the world. He told Emily Webb how you go about milking a snake. Photo: Paul (left) milking a snake Credit: Benjamin Gilbert, Wellcome Trust

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