Integrating human behavior and snake ecology with agent-based models to predict snakebite in high risk landscapes.

• Main Authors: Eyal Goldstein (Author), Joseph J Erinjery (Author), Gerardo Martin (Author), Anuradhani Kasturiratne (Author), Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera (Author), Hithanadura Janaka de Silva (Author), Peter Diggle (Author), David Griffith Lalloo (Author), Kris A Murray (Author), Takuya Iwamura (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Snakebite causes more than 1.8 million envenoming cases annually and is a major cause of death in the tropics especially for poor farmers. While both social and ecological factors influence the chance encounter between snakes and people, the spatio-temporal processes underlying snakebites remain poo...