内容摘要：BBC Newsbeat has also asked health leaders in Wales whether they intend to do the same.

BBC Newsbeat has also asked health leaders in Wales whether they intend to do the same.

There's a fridge in the corner of the room where the raw venom Mr Collett is collecting is stored. It's full of vials labelled "Death Adder", "Taipan", "Tiger Snake" and "Eastern Brown".The last of these is the second-most venomous snake in the world, and the one that's most likely to bite you here, in Australia.

This venom gets freeze-dried and sent to CSL Seqirus, a lab in Melbourne, where it's turned into an antidote in a process that can take up to 18 months.The first step is to produce what's known as hyper-immune plasma. In the case of snakes, controlled doses of the venom are injected into horses, because they are larger animals with a strong immune system.The venom of Sydney funnel-web spiders goes into rabbits, which are immune to the toxins. The animals are injected with increasing doses to build up their antibodies. In some cases, that step alone can take almost a year.

The animal's supercharged plasma is removed from the blood, and then the antibodies are isolated from the plasma before they're bottled, ready to be administered.CSL Seqirus makes 7,000 vials a year – including snake, spider, stonefish and box jellyfish antivenoms - and they are valid for 36 months. The challenge then is to ensure everyone who needs it has supplies.

"It's an enormous undertaking," says Dr Jules Bayliss, who leads the antivenom medical team at CSL Seqirus.

"First and foremost we want to see them in major rural and remote areas that these creatures are likely to be in."The revelation could help explain why Co-op has

more quickly than fellow retailer M&S, which had its systems more comprehensively compromised, and is still unable to carry out online orders.Hackers who have claimed responsibility for both attacks told the BBC they tried to infect Co-op with malicious software known as ransomware - but failed when the firm discovered the attack in action.

Both Co-op and M&S declined to comment.The gang, using the cyber crime service DragonForce, sent the BBC a long, offensive rant about their attack.