A secret of his success was the immunity he had built up by injecting himself every day for more than 60 years with a mix of venoms from 32 snake species. He suspected the inoculations might have explained his extraordinarily good health, but he was reluctant to make that claim, he said, until he reached 100.

Mr. Haast, who was director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, a snake-venom producer near Punta Gorda, Fla., died of natural causes on Wednesday at his home in southwest Florida, his wife, Nancy, said. He was 100.

adman had his 3rd grade birthday at the serpentarium.
- bill 7-04-2011 10:12 pm [add a comment]

wow what a life!!
- Skinny 7-04-2011 10:30 pm [add a comment]