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From paralysis to bleeding disorders and death: Inside Turkana's drought-related snakebites

Locals display a spitting cobra that had invaded one of the homesteads. 

At 7am, an eight-year-old boy is brought by an ambulance to Kamuge Dispensary in Suguta as an emergency case.

He is unconscious, his leg severely swollen and oedematous (excess fluid buildup).

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