| Genre/Form: |
Internet videos |
| Material Type: |
Clipart/images/graphics, Internet resource, Videorecording |
| Document Type: |
Internet Resource, Computer File, Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
American Institute of Physics.; Films Media Group, |
| OCLC Number: |
1004243094 |
| Language Note: |
Closed-captioned. |
| Notes: |
Originally released by American Institute of Physics, 2016.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on March 30, 2017.
Title from distributor's description (Films Media Group, May 17, 2017). |
| Target Audience: |
9 & up. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (1 video file (4 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Responsibility: |
American Institute of Physics. |
| More information: |
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Abstract:
In the U.S., rattlesnakes and coral snakes are highly venomous. And sub-Saharan Africa has ten of the deadliest snakes in the world. Antivenom can save lives but, as of right now, we've run out of some types of antivenom, and not just here in the U.S., but around the world. The big deal about antivenoms and shortages in the world right now is that drug companies that make any kind of pharmaceutical product, only make it if it's profitable. And the problem with antivenoms is they tend to be fairly expensive to produce. It's expensive to produce and there is not enough demand, so little in fact, that the pharmaceutical company that produced antivenom products stopped making them in 2003. The Food and Drug Administration stepped in and extended the expiration dates of the last remaining supplies to last until June 2016.
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