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It all started with a snake bite back in 2005. Dr. P. Gowri Shankar was rescuing a king cobra when the ten-foot-long snake suddenly struck him. “You can die within 20 minutes if you get bitten,” says the founder-director of the Kālinga Foundation (kaalinga sarpa is Kannada for King Cobra) located in the Agumbe rainforests…
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For some people, snakes are exotic yet dangerous creatures of the wild; eerie but elusive, and not something to worry about in day-to-day life. For others, especially some farmers in India and Africa, they are a constant and terrifying threat to life. Venom from snake bites leads to more than 100,000 deaths every year, with…
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