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El Niño has Costa Rica’s snakes in a biting mood

Climate change might have a nasty bite. A new study on snakebite rates in Costa Rica has found that the bite rate shoots up during El Nino — at both the hot and cold parts of the cycle — and that the problem disproportionately affects poor, rural populations. The findings, described in the journal Science Advances,…


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  • Righty

    Oh goody, an excuse for another government program. Has anyone thought to tell the people in snake infested areas to wear shoes and long pants. That won’t stop it, but it will reduce the numbers significantly. Or do we really need another 500 bureaucrats to run up the deficit?

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