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This animal kills 100,000 people a year. Why can’t we stop it?

Zakaria Muturi, a puff adder bite survivor and venomous-snake handler, leads a snakebite awareness campaign in rural Kenya. Kenya is working to develop locally produced antivenom for regional snakes. | Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images There are few animals humans fear more than sharks. This is understandable: Sharks are big, dramatic creatures that have been permanently lodged in our culture as underwater killers since Jaws. They also kill about six people in a given year. Snakes, on the other hand, kill roughly 100,000. After mosquitoes, which spread diseases like malaria, and human...