Venomous snakebites: Rapid action saves lives—A multifaceted community education programme increases awareness about snakes and snakebites among the rural population of Tamil Nadu, India

• Stephen Paul Samuel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen Paul Samuel, Soundararaj Chinnaraju

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliations Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, United Kingdom, TCR Multispeciality Hospital, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2423-3960

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• Soundararaj Chinnaraju ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen Paul Samuel, Soundararaj Chinnaraju

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation TCR Multispeciality Hospital, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Harry F. Williams,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5095-3131

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• Elamaran Pichamuthu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Mangaiyarkkarasai Subharao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7894-3242

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• Mohanraj Vaiyapuri,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Sundhararajan Arumugam,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Trichy SRM Medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4676-3498

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• Rajendran Vaiyapuri,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Toxiven Biotech Private Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• M. Fazil Baksh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Ketan Patel,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Steven A. Trim,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Venomtech Limited, Sandwich, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3524-4115

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• Tracey E. Duncombe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Enterprise Services, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Sakthivel Vaiyapuri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.vaiyapuri@reading.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6006-6517

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