In Costa Rica, Snakebites Increase With El Niño (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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In Costa Rica, Snakebites Increase With El Niño (1 of 2)

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Terciopelo (Bothrops asper), an aggressive snake species, is responsible for most snakebite envenomations in the neotropics. Pictured is a female from the Costa Rican Caribbean. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 11 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.F. Chaves at Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN) in Nagasaki, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Niño."

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[Credit: Davinia Beneyto]

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