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Kevin Clifford Budden (September 27, 1930 – July 28, 1950) was an amateur Australian herpetologist and snake hunter. Budden was the first person to capture a live taipan for research and died from a snakebite in the process of doing so.
17. Sept. 2023 · A 10-year-old boy became the first recipient of taipan antivenom in 1955 and survived. But there was no such luck for Kevin Budden, who captured the first snake of its kind for milking five years ...
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15. Apr. 2021 · To coincide with the 70th anniversary of the death of Kevin Budden – a pioneer in the development of a specific taipan antivenom – Brendan James Murray will ...
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11. Mai 2020 · David Williams wrote a magnificent article on the expedition which as become part of Australian Herpetological folklore...."Two days after Kevin's death the taipan which killed him took the...
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14. Jan. 2014 · On the morning of 28 July, 1950, Kevin Budden walked up to a roadside in Queensland, Australia with several feet of angry snake coiled around his arm, and flagged down a truck. Budden, aged...
5. Juli 2023 · Kevin Budden, despite his young age, was an experienced snake hunter. Local papers had written of his hobby of catching venomous snakes, after he caught 59 in a year while being bitten...
Such was the need for antivenom, however, that a young man by the name of Kevin Budden risked and ultimately lost his life capturing one of the first taipans to be milked; he was only twenty years old at the time of his death in 1950.
