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Vipers, mambas and taipans: the escalating health crisis over snakebites

Carrie Arnold
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Nature, 2016, vol. 537, issue 7618, 26-28

Abstract: Snakes kill tens of thousands of people each year. But experts can't agree on how best to overcome a desperate shortage of antivenom.

Date: 2016
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