Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Niño

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Chaves, Luis Fernando ^a,b   Chuang, Ting Wu ^c   Sasa, Mahmood ^d   Gutiérrez, José María ^d  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARDS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; NICKEL;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS; RAINY SEASONS; REPRODUCTIVE PHENOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84948417772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500249     Document Type: Article

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