Global Warming Could Increase These Specific Types of Bites

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Climate change is bringing with it all sorts of dangers, from extreme heat, to drought, to rising sea levels and water scarcity. However now, according to researchers from Emory University in Georgia, global warming is also making our planet’s venomous snakes even more dangerous.

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00:00Climate change is bringing with it all sorts of dangers from extreme heat to

00:08drought to rising sea levels and water scarcity however now according to

00:12researchers from Emory University in Georgia global warming is also making

00:16our planet's venomous snakes even more dangerous it's long been known that

00:20snake behavior changes with the seasons however now the researchers have found a

00:24direct link between the temperature rising and your chances of being bitten

00:27they came to this conclusion by looking at 3908 venomous snake related hospital

00:32visits between the years 2014 and 2020 finding that for every single degree

00:36Celsius of temperature increase there was a 6% increased chance of being bitten by

00:41one of these snakes they add that while they can't provide a direct reason for

00:44why this occurs it's likely due to multiple factors one of those is that

00:48snakes and humans are more active when the weather is warmer meaning people are

00:51likely treading in snake territory while those snakes are also moving around and

00:55alert however there seems to be a threshold as well as spring actually had

00:58the highest association between higher temperatures and snake bites according to

01:02the World Health Organization there are over 5 million venomous snake bites

01:06reported every year resulting in upwards of 138,000 deaths

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