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| |  A rattlesnake at the Butantan Institute, Sao Paulo This week's programme is all about snakes. We travel to Sao Paulo in Brazil - home to some of the most poisonous snakes in the world. Anna Jones talks to Octavio Mercadente who is the director of the Butantan Institute - also known as 'the snake farm.' The Butantan Institute does important research into many different kinds of snakes and other reptiles and it also produces serum and vaccines against venomous snake bites for the whole of Brazil. You can download a copy of the script and the complete programme at the bottom of the page. You can also test your comprehension by trying our quiz.
Vocabulary from the programme vaccine a substance that contains a harmless form of the germs that cause a particular illness or disease which is given to people to protect them from becoming ill serum a liquid that is taken from an animal and put into a human in order to fight a poison or infection Example Just a few minutes after the snake bit the child, the doctor injected her with a serum. antidote a drug which limits the effects of a poison Example The soldiers were given a needle so they could inject inject themselves with an antidote in case of a chemical attack. Extras  Programme script (pdf - 18k) Try the Weekender quiz | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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