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Using available data and modelling to assess the incidence of snakebites and associated deaths provides information needed for efforts to tackle this public-health concern.
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Snakes and their venom haunt history and literary imaginations. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, Lady Macbeth chillingly tells her husband to “look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t”.
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Nature 657, 43 (2026)
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