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Scientist bitten over 100 times by world's deadliest snakes
Divorcee Tim said: "I'm probably the only person in the world who can take a bite back-to-back from these snakes and live.
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"I will not stop doing this until the vaccine is in the field or I die.”My arms were killing me after the bites. There was a real throbbing sensation but I felt great.
"I don't think there are many people who could take those bites singular - let alone back-to-back."
Unsurprisingly, his obsession with saving the tens of thousands of lives lost every year to snakebites has nearly killed him on a number of occasions and also cost him his marriage.
He said: "I made a big mistake back in 2011. I took two cobra bites.
The first one was fine but on the second one I flatlined.
I was in a coma and very nearly died - it was rough.
Because it was so bad it's really cool to be at this stage now where I can beat these bites.
It was a big mistake but sometimes you've got to make those mistakes and get through them."
Determined, Tim keeps and immunises himself against five of the world's most deadly snakes at his home in Wisconsin, USA.
He added: "I have a mojave rattlesnake, water cobras, PNG taipan, black mamba and western diamond back rattlesnake and I can take a bite from all of them."
But his obsession to prove his theory on self-immunisation has had a devastating impact on life outside of his lab.
His wife divorced him in October after 20 years together when she finally had enough of Tim's snake obsession.
Beth Friede, 35 said: "Me and the kids never came in first, sometimes not even second. The snakes were always first.
I would say to him that he has a love affair with his animals.
He pushed his family away and he has no relationship with his two sons”.
Despite the controversial nature of his experiments, Tim does have some backing from the scientific community.
Source: mirro.co.uk