Even today, extraction is still done exclusively by hand: the snake is forced to sink its teeth into a membrane and the oozing venom is collected in a sterile test tube. A few drops, but deadly. And very important for the production of antidotes.
Journey inside the Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute in Bangkok, the Thai Red Cross Society centre specialising in the production of antivenom serum. It is the first in Asia and the second in the world.
