Four women (from left) Diana Barr, Nancy Njeri, Sanda Ashe, and Winnie Bore have chosen careers working with snakes. PHOTOS | BIO-KEN | RUPI MANGAT
Handling live venomous snakes is an extremely dangerous profession. One major reason for handling the venomous snakes is to milk them, to extract the venom to produce anti-venom used to treat snakebites.
Without anti-venom, a bite from any venomous snake can be deadly. Ironically, anti-venom can only be produced from ample supplies of venom from live venomous snakes. It takes courage and dexterity to extract venom from a snake.
