(14 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya - 5 April 2024
1. Various of venom being extracted from snake
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Geoffrey Maranga, senior herpetologist at Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC):
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"As a result of human population, we are causing adverse effects on their habitats, like forest destruction and eventually we are having snakes coming into our homes primarily to seek for water or food and eventually we have the conflict between humans and the snakes. We are seeing that climate change is also affecting them a lot because when there is no rain for quite a number of time, snakes are forced to seek alternative sources of water whereby they seek to human settlements or habitats to seek for water needs. As well whenever it rains a lot and it floods all over the place, the only safe place sometimes like dry areas is in our houses."
3. Various of snakes
4. Maranga handling snakes
5. Close of snake
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kitui, Kenya, 13 May 2024
6. Various of Esther Kangali, snake bite victim, carrying a pot of tea
7. Various of Esther Kangali and her mother, Anna Kangali sorting green grams (mung beans)
8. SOUNDBITE (Kamba) Anna Kangali, mother to Esther Kangali, snakebite victim:
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"When there is a lot of rain, snakes are carried by floods to our homes. Snakes are in the mountains, when there are no rains, they come down to look for food. Many chickens have been killed by snakes looking for food and now we can’t eat those chickens. The snakes also bite donkeys and cows and now you can’t know what to treat the cow with because we don’t have the right medicine. So if the snake bite medicine can come to the grassroots we will all get help because our donkeys also die from the snake bites. When you see the donkey has died and you notice a rotten spot, we know that was a snake bite. So if we have medicine to treat snake bites it would greatly help."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kitui, Kenya, 7 May 2024
9. Wide of a hospital ward
10. Augustine Wambua, snakebite victim, on a hospital bed
11. SOUNDBITE (Kamba) Augustine Wambua, snakebite victim:
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"I have personally spent a lot of money because every lab test is expensive and every poison test is paid for. Because since I was bitten, my lab results show poison, poison, poison. And every injection is an extra expense. And now the whole cost is mounting high and my people are straining a lot and it was an abrupt incident."
12. Close of snake bite
13. Wambua on bed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya, 05 April 2024
14. Various of snakes
STORYLINE:
Residents of Kitui, Kenya live in constant fear of venomous snakebites as dangerous snakes move closer to their settlement.
As the forests around them dwindle due to logging and agricultural expansion, and the climate patterns become increasingly unpredictable, the reptiles are encroaching on human territory with alarming frequency.
"When there is a lot of rain, snakes are carried by floods to our homes. Snakes are in the mountains, when there are no rains, they come down to look for food," says villager Anna Kangali.
But it's not just livestock that is suffering.
In 2019, Kangali's daughter, Esther - a 32-year-old mother of five - suffered a devastating snake bite while working on the farm.
Esther was taken to the nearest health centre and then a hospital, but both facilities lacked the necessary medication to treat the snakebite.
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