A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes.

• Main Authors: Gerardo Martín (Author), Joseph J Erinjery (Author), Dileepa Ediriweera (Author), H Janaka de Silva (Author), David G Lalloo (Author), Takuya Iwamura (Author), Kris A Murray (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Snakebite is the only WHO-listed, not infectious neglected tropical disease (NTD), although its eco-epidemiology is similar to that of zoonotic infections: envenoming occurs after a vertebrate host contacts a human. Accordingly, snakebite risk represents the interaction between snake and human facto...