Meet the Filipino snake catcher who has been bitten so many times he has become immune to COBRA VENOM - and lets them bite him once a week to maintain his strength. Joe Fernando Quililan, 31, started handling the wild reptiles as a hobby when he was just 14 - tracking them down in the jungle and removing them from neighbours' homes.Since then Joe - dubbed ''venom man'' - has suffered hundreds of bites, been ''hospitalised and almost died five times'', and had his right index finger amputated after a viper bite. Incredibly, Joe allows a deadly cobra to bite him ONCE A WEEK because he believes it maintains his body's resistance to the venom that would normally kill people.