Who remembers the Great Winter of 2013-14? Now that the weather has warmed up, the ice storms and polar vertexes have become a hazy memory. Wouldn’t it be nice to have this kind of weather all year round? But a tropical climate will come with it’s own fauna like the bothrops atrox, a venomous pit viper found in South America. Here it is, slithering towards a tent. Unfortunately, that particular tent doesn’t have a floor, so it’s no surprise that the occupant didn’t wait around too long! And it seems to be coming from the SansBug where the sewn-in floor thwarted entry into the te
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Thanks so much to Dr. Ernesto Ortiz of Duke University for sending these pics. Dr. Ortiz is studying infectious diseases in the Peruvian Amazon. Here’s part of an email from him:
I just bought another SansBug tent, they are amazing! Very useful for the field. I take it to the Peruvian rainforest for our research fieldwork trips (very hot, lots of bugs and humid) and it even protected me from one of the most poisonous snakes of the AmazonErnesto J. Ortiz, MD, MPH
Associate in Research
Duke Global Health Institute