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An expert holds a rattlesnake after venom was extracted from it at the Butantan Institue – which supplies the Ministry of Health, with many snakes' venom for its ditribution countrywide – in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 12, 2019. In 2018 nearly 29,000 people were bitten by snakes in Brazil, of which over a hundred were killed. Most of the cases were in the vast and remote Amazon basin, far away from hospitals stocked with antivenom. (Photo by Carl De Souza/AFP Photo)
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