Taipan size. In 1950, Kevin Budden, an amateur herpetologist, was one of the first people to capture a taipan alive, although he was bitten in the process and died the next day. The snake, which ended up dying a few weeks later, was milked by Melbourne zoologist David Fleay and its venom used to develop an antivenom, which became available in 1955. In his book "Venom", which explores the development of a taipan antivenom in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s, author Brendan James Murray argues that only one person is known to have survived an Oxyuranus bite without antivenom: George
Taipan Business Centre nearby. The nearest station is Taipan LRT station on the Kelana Jaya line which opened in 2016. Taipan business centre was constructed together with the USJ townships in the 1990s by developer Sime UEP Properties Bhd, part of Sime Darby Bhd. The business centre has a multi-storey carpark in the centre which is surrounded by shoplots forming a triangular shape. Taipan business centre functions as the main business hub of the USJ neighbourhood, which is renowned for food, shopping and banking services. It also serves the large residential area where most of the development were completed in the 1990s and