The global burden of snakebite: a literature analysis and modelling based on regional estimates of envenoming and deaths.

The global burden of snakebite: a literature analysis and modelling based on regional estimates of envenoming and deaths.

<h4>Background</h4>Envenoming resulting from snakebites is an important public health problem in many tropical and subtropical countries. Few attempts have been made to quantify the burden, and recent estimates all suffer from the lack of an objective and reproducible methodology. In an...

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Main Authors: Anuradhani Kasturiratne, A Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, N Kithsiri Gunawardena, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Ranjan Premaratna, Lorenzo Savioli, David G Lalloo, H Janaka de Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18986210/?tool=EBI

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