Participatory approaches and open data on venomous snakes: A neglected opportunity in the global snakebite crisis?
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1 Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 EnviroSPACE Lab, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 3 Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Citizen Cyberlab, CERN-UNITAR-University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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