Lancet, The, 2010 The article gives a brief account of the author’s experience of a snake bite. In an attempt to save the endangered lion cubs he was bitten by a poisonous snake (Indian cobra) when he was Director of the Zoo.
David A Warrell
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Prolonged asymptomatic venom induced consumption coagulopathy: Caused by hemotoxic snake bite [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Envenoming and deaths resulting from snake bite are a particularly important public health problem in the tropical world, with the highest burden in rural areas of South East Asia and Africa.
Prabhat Rijal +4 more
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Intravenous snake bite: A catastrophic snake envenomation.
Ann Afr Med, 2023 The rapid onset of life-threatening clinical manifestations in venomous snake bite could be due to an intravenous bite. This article seeks to review and consider the clinical implications, pathophysiology, and management of this rare route of snake envenomation broadly by venomous snakes which are little described in the ...
Naik SB.
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Snake Bite Management: A Scoping Review of the Literature [PDF]
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2021 Background:. Around the world, snake bite envenomation remains an underreported human health hazard. Envenomation can cause local and systemic complications, especially when there is a lack of antivenom availability.
Jeffrey J. Russell +2 more
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Hemorrhagic stroke following snake bite in Burkina Faso (West Africa). A case series [PDF]
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, 2021 Background Snake bites remain a major medical problem in West Africa, and hemorrhagic stroke following a snakebite has emerged as a rare secondary condition. The objective of this study was to determine the neurological complications following snake bite.
Alfred Anselme Dabilgou +6 more
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IJCM_289A: Determination of factors favouring the snake bite mortality in Himachal Pradesh [PDF]
Indian Journal of Community MedicineBackground: Snake bite is an established important cause of morbidity and mortality among the poor and rural population across the world including India. India accounts for the highest number of snakebites and related mortality globally.
Manoj Kumar Gandhi +2 more
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Unmasking the ties of snake bite poisoning and COVID-19 [PDF]
Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology, 2022 Chander A +3 more
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Annual incidence of snake bite in rural bangladesh. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the rural tropics.
Ridwanur Rahman +10 more
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Snake bite in Northwest Iran: A retrospective study [PDF]
Journal of Analytical Research in Clinical Medicine, 2016 Introduction: bite affects about 2 million people every year, with more than 100000 mortalities annually. A person bitten by a snake represents a variety of symptoms.
Leila Eslamian +5 more
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Repurposing cancer drugs, batimastat and marimastat, to inhibit the activity of a group I metalloprotease from the venom of the Western Diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox [PDF]
, 2020 Snakebite envenomation causes over 140,000 deaths every year predominantly in developing countries. As a result, it is one of the most lethal neglected tropical diseases.
Bicknell, Andrew B. +12 more
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