top of page

Read Aloud

level 4

Current events

即时新闻

12-12-20

自由时报

周虹汶

年轻埃及人在蝎子裡發现财富

多年前,有个年轻的埃及男子放弃了他的考古学位,在该国沙漠和海岸猎捕蝎子,并提炼牠们的毒液做医药用途。

年仅25岁的穆罕默德.哈姆迪.比什塔现在是「开罗毒液公司」的老闆—此一计画是在埃及各地农场饲养8万隻蝎子和各种蛇,并保存牠们的毒液。

用紫外线灯捕抓,这些蝎子被暴露在微弱电流下,来刺激毒液释放,1公克可以製造2万至5万剂的抗蛇毒血清。

1公克蝎毒可卖1万美元,比什塔出口到欧洲和美国,用来製造抗蛇毒血清及各种其他药物,包括用于高血压等疾病。(路透)

Young Egyptian finds a fortune in scorpions

Several years ago, a young Egyptian man abandoned his degree in archaeology to hunt scorpions in the country’s deserts and shores, extracting their venom for medicinal use.

At just 25 years old, Mohamed Hamdy Boshta is now the owner of the Cairo Venom Company - a project housing 80,000 scorpions in various farms across Egypt as well as a range of snakes, also kept for their venom.

Caught using a colored UV light, the scorpions are exposed to a tiny electric current to stimulate the release of the venom, one gram of which can produce between 20,000 and 50,000 doses of antivenom.

A gram of scorpion venom can fetch $10,000 and Boshta exports it to Europe and the U.S. where it is used to make antivenom and a range of other medicines, including for conditions such as hypertension. (Reuters)

bottom of page