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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. His work was instrumental in developing a taipan antivenom.
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 ...
- Phil Brandel
14. Jan. 2014 · January 14, 2014. • 6 min read. 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...
5. Juli 2023 · While in the scrub, Budden was able to capture a 1.8-meter (6-foot) taipan. However, as he was putting the snake into a bag it broke free and was able to bite him on the thumb.
- James Felton
11. Mai 2020 · The Australian Herpetological Society. 107 subscribers. Subscribed. 41. 1.8K views 3 years ago. Commence viewing at 1:34 Author of "Snake Bitten - Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park",...
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1. Dez. 2006 · Kevin Budden was a safe snake handler and wanted to set up a reptile park with Neville Goddard. He already had good experience with dangerous southern Australian snakes including the difficult to handle common brown snake. Kevin's parents wanted Neville to accompany him on a second trip north in 1950 in his pursuit to secure taipans ...
TIL of the 1950 death of Kevin Budden, a 20 y.o. amateur herpatologist bitten by the taipan snake he captured for antivenom research. News of Budden's death inspired others to capture additional snake species, resulting in the development of five new antivenoms within 12 years of Budden's death. : r/todayilearned.
