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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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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...
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 be giving a talk on this little ...
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24. Sept. 2023 · Kevin Budden was buried in the Cairns cemetery as his grieving parents knew how much he loved the far north. The couple were not wealthy and only the generosity of David Fleay enabled them to visit the grave. The zoologist gave them the fifty pound fee he received for milking the taipan.
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.
Kevin Budden (1930-1950) was one of the first people to capture a live taipan, a highly venomous snake. He died from a bite while trying to catch the snake, but his specimen helped develop a taipan antivenom.
