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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