Bill Haast (December 30, 1910 – June 15, 2011[1]) was the owner and operator, from 1947 until 1984, of the Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction south of Miami, Florida, where he entertained customers by performing live venom extraction from snakes.[2] After closing the Serpentarium, he opened the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, a facility in Punta Gorda, Florida that produced snake venom for medical and research use.[3] Haast extracted venom from venomous snakes from the time he was a boy.
Haast physically extracted venom from venomous snakes by holding them by the head and forcing them to bite a rubber membrane covering a vial. As a result of handling these snakes, Haast had been bitten 172 times by mid-2008,[4] all of which but the last few were validated by the Guinness Book of World Records "for surviving the most deadly snake bites", a distinction Haast disliked as he did not think being bitten was a goal to be attained or admired.[5]
^"Bill Haast Obituary". legacy.com. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
^Douglas Martin (2011-06-17). "Bill Haast, a Man Charmed by Snakes, Dies at 100". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
^"Bill Haast". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2011-06-20.
^Spinner, Kate (2008-07-11). "Snake man is master of poison and cure". Sarasota Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2009-06-28. For Haast, the weekly shots paid off, helping him to survive 172 venomous snake bites.
^"Snakebites and Immunization". BillHaast.com. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
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