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

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.

Sara Babo Martins et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019.

. 2019 Sep 26;13(9):e0007608.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007608. eCollection 2019 Sep.

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.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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