In Africa, danger passes through houses and fields

Snakes like this are giants. Black mambas can grow up to 14 feet, and the longest king cobra ever recorded was 19 feet.

Puffer snakes, on the other hand, are small, as short as six inches and not above six feet, but very thick. They have it long, retractable teeth can poison muscles.

Their venom destroys blood clotting factors and victims die slowly, horrible deaths, bleeding in the brain, eyes and mouth.

Identifying the aggressor can help tailor treatment. However, many people never see the snake biting them, or if they do, they don’t recognize it. To the untrained eye, poisonous snakes are indistinguishable from harmless snakes.

Names don’t make it easy. Green mambas are green, but black mambas are pale gray to dark brown; They are named so because the inside of the mouth is black. They are better known for their coffin-shaped heads and nervous grins.

Some scientists Creating AI models anyone with a smartphone to recognize snakes can identify them.

About one-third of snakebites occur in children. They occur less often among pregnant women, however results – includes spontaneous abortion, placental abruption, abortion, fetal malformations and death for both mother and fetus – can occur disastrous.

Often the victims are farmers. Losing a leader breaks up families.

Ruth Munuwe’s husband worked as a driver in Nairobi and came to the family farm every weekend. He was bitten on Saturday, April 2020, aged 42, walking through brush on his way home from a night out.

Two hospitals struggling to treat Covid patients turned him away. His sister, Esther Nziu, said that when he died two days later, his body had swollen to double the size, a sign of a cane bite.

Ms. Munuve currently grows maize and chickpeas mainly for food and sells green gram. Ms. Nziu has five children, but she does her best to raise her brother’s four children.

Money is tight, but women still paid to strengthen the home. “I don’t want anyone else to be bitten by snakes,” Ms Nziu said.