Snakebite and its impact in rural communities: The need for a One Health approach

Sara Babo Martins; Isabelle Bolon; François Chappuis; Nicolas Ray; Gabriel Alcoba; Carlos Ochoa; Sanjib Kumar Sharma; Armand S Nkwescheu; Franck Wanda; Andrew M Durso; Rafael Ruiz de Castañeda

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007608

Snakebite and its impact in rural communities: The need for a One Health approach

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Sep 26;13(9):e0007608. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007608. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

Sara Babo Martins¹, Isabelle Bolon¹, François Chappuis², Nicolas Ray^{1

3}, Gabriel Alcoba^{1

2

4}, Carlos Ochoa^{1

3}, Sanjib Kumar Sharma⁵, Armand S Nkwescheu⁶, Franck Wanda⁷, Andrew M Durso¹, Rafael Ruiz de Castañeda¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
² Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Institute for Environmental Sciences, GeoHealth group, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
⁶ Cameroon Society of Epidemiology, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
⁷ Centre d'Enseignement, Recherche, et Soins, Akonolinga, Cameroon.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Animals, Domestic
Humans
One Health*
Rural Population / statistics & numerical data
Snake Bites / prevention & control*
Snake Bites / veterinary*
Snakes / physiology

Grants and funding

The SNAKE_BYTE project, under which this work has been developed, has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (project number 176271). RRdC was partly supported by the Fondation Louis-Jeantet. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.