ArticleiScience2023
Climate change maladaptation for health: Agricultural practice against shifting seasonal rainfall affects snakebite risk for farmers in the tropics.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Snakebite-Associated Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Pooled it
- Estimates of global burden of snakebite: A literature review and geostatistical modelling study.PLoS medicine · 2026Review
- Climate change induced complex shifts in snake distributions expose people to snakebite and threaten biodiversity.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Climate change triggering shifts in venomous snakes hotspots and snakebite risk in India.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Causal inference unveils how forest coverage mitigates excess snakebite cases during rainfall seasons in Colombia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Two lives, one bite: a six-year retrospective study on snakebite envenoming among pregnant women in Northeastern Nigeria.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Challenges towards the Sustainability and Enhancement of the Indian Sundarban Mangrove's Blue Carbon Stock.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Snakebite affects more than 1.8 million people annually. Factors explaining snakebite variability include farmers' behaviors, snake ecology and climate. One unstudied issue is how farmers' adaptation to novel climates affect their health. Here we examined potential impacts of adaptation on snakebite using individual-based simulations, focusing on strategies meant to counteract major crop yield decline because of changing rainfall in Sri Lanka. For rubber cropping, adaptation led to a 33% increase in snakebite incidence per farmer work hour because of work during risky months, but a 17% decrease in total annual snakebites because of decreased labor in plantations overall. Rice farming adaptation decreased snakebites by 16%, because of shifting labor towards safer months, whereas tea adaptation led to a general increase. These results indicate that adaptation could have both a positive and negative effect, potentially intensified by ENSO. Our research highlights the need for assessing adaptation strategies for potential health maladaptations.
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