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A project exploring how environmental change may influence the incidence of snake bite has received a boost from a new global health research fund.
Every year between 420,000 and 1.8 million people are exposed to snake venom after being bitten by snakes. Claiming up to 120,000 lives worldwide, the majority of these incidents occur in rural areas of developing countries, affecting mostly agricultural workers and subsistence farmers. A new collaboration between the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Tel Aviv University and the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka has been awarded over £500,000 to study the prevalence and drivers of snake bite, and explore how changes in climate and land use patterns may affect the likelihood of snake bite occurring. Read more here...
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