• cholesterol@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The rate might be low, but comparing blindly to domesticated animals isn’t quite fair, since context and exposure levels drastically skew the results. Humans interact a lot with domesticated animals directly, and comparatively little with wild (and venomous) snakes.

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      12 days ago

      Depends where you live 😆 . In any case, most snakes are shy and move away from people (for good reason) and will only bite if provoked accidentally or intentionally. We also have anti-venom in hospitals so deaths are pretty rare.