Path-breaking discovery! Asansol professor finds anti-venom in oranges

Here is some good news for innumerable snake bite victims of Bengal and India. Professor Subhamoy Panda of Asansol’s Gupta College of Technological Sciences has successfully isolated anti-venom from oranges. He has also been awarded at the state science congress for his path-breaking discovery.

He has mixed Hesperetinum, a chemical isolated from oranges, with anti-venom serum. This leads to an effective anti-venom injection to fight against snake bites specially of cobra and King Cobra, that are very common in the villages of Bengal. If these snakes bite a human, their venom is so potent that it strikes the cells immediately and even starts degeneration within seconds. This anti-venom is a big breakthrough as in last 10 years hardly any anti-venom was prepared in West Bengal laboratories, rather they were brought from Tamil Nadu. This often led to a shortage of anti-venom in state run hospitals leading to death of patients. 

Dr Panda’s discovery is hence a boon for all such victims.