Credit: Saskia Keller, National Wildlife Health Center.

Photo of a scientist wearing gloves and using a cotton swab to swab a queen snake

You've decided to do more research. What do you want to do?

Option 1: Start a research program to develop a vaccine to reduce susceptibility of uninfected snakes. (This will take 2 years to finish, but it will only take 2 weeks to get this intervention started before you can do another action.)

Time Cost: 2 weeks/ticks

Monetary Cost: $500,000

Charisma Effect: Unknown

Credit: Seth Lagrange

Do this action

Option 2: Test a common veterinary fungicide to see if it kills the fungus and cures snake infections.

Time Cost: 4 Weeks/Ticks

Monetary Cost: $10,000

Charisma Effect: Unknown

Do this action

Option 3: Survey captive bred pet snakes to see if they are also infected by this pathogen .

Time Cost: 2 Weeks/Ticks

Monetary Cost: $15000

Charisma Effect: Unknown

Do this action

Option 4: Just kidding, you want to apply for more money instead of doing more research.

Time Cost: 4 Weeks/Ticks

Monetary Cost: $0

Charisma Effect: Unknown

Do this action

Option 5: Just kidding, you want to do an intervention instead of doing more research.

Time Cost: Depends on which intervention you choose

Monetary Cost: Depends on which intervention you choose

Charisma Effect: Unknown

Credit: Saskia Keller, National Wildlife Health Center.

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