Implications of global environmental change for the burden of snakebiteBullet points

• Published in: Toxicon X Vol. 9; p. 100069
• Main Authors: Gerardo Martín, Carlos Yáñez-Arenas, Rodrigo Rangel-Camacho, Kris A. Murray, Eyal Goldstein, Takuya Iwamura, Xavier Chiappa-Carrara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 01.07.2021
• Subjects: Climate change; Global change; Land use change; Snake ecology; Snakebite; Sustainability agenda

Snakebite envenoming is a set of intoxication diseases that disproportionately affect people of poor socioeconomic backgrounds in tropical countries. As it is highly dependent on the environment its burden is expected to shift spatially with global anthropogenic environmental (climate, land use) and...