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Egypt’s scorpion king hunts fortune in the desert

An Egyptian man gave up his archeology job to gather scorpions and snakes and extract their venom for medicinal purposes.
NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL - AUGUST 05: (ISRAEL OUT) A Yellow Scorpion eats his prey as it glows in the dark on August 5, 2013 near Sde Boker in the Negev Desert, Israel. The Negev is second on a list of the world's top ten regional travel destinations for 2013.  (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

“Almost everyone mocked me. No one seems to understand what I am doing,” Mohammad Boshta, 25, told Al-Monitor in his laboratory while carefully extracting venom from a scorpion.

“I gave up my job in the archeology field when I started hunting scorpions in the deserts and beaches of Egypt. I had faith in what I was doing. I found my passion.”

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