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Bowker worked in the Miami Serpentarium, which according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel was the world’s first snake venom production laboratory.

In 1993, Bowker arranged a deal with a man named Rudy “Cobra King” Komarek to exchange 22 alligators for 22 timber rattlesnakes; the director of the Serpentarium had wanted the snakes’ venom for his private medical research.

He has worked at the serpentarium with Asprilla for nearly two decades, but he's still reluctant to extract venom from snakes.

Most of the venom from the serpentarium goes to antivenom production at the farm near Medellín's airport where he works.

Asprilla has been bitten twice since he started working at the University of Antioquia's serpentarium, but he isn't one to elaborate on the experience.