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Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019 [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2022
Snakebite envenoming is a leading cause of mortality among neglected tropical diseases. Here, the authors analyze a global data repository and estimate that snakebite envenoming caused over 63,000 deaths in 2019, primarily concentrated in South Asia and ...
GBD 2019 Snakebite Envenomation Collaborators
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The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2008
Janaka de Silva and colleagues estimate that globally at least 421,000 envenomings and 20,000 deaths occur each year due to ...
A. Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Abraham, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Balde, Bawaskar, Blackman, Blaylock, Bokata, Bubalo, Cardoso, Carme, Carme, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Chippaux, Cockram, Coombs, Crump, Currie, Curry, David G Lalloo, de Carvalho, De Sousa, Devkota, Fayomi, Forrester, Fox, Frayre-Torres, Gold, Gold, Gunnels, Gutierrez, Guyavarch, H. Janaka de Silva, Hansdak, Hanssens, Hati, Haviv, Juckett, Karlson-Stiber, Kasilo, Kasturiratne, Ken Winkel, Kumar, Lalloo, Lo Vecchio, Lorenzo Savioli, Luksic, Mahaba, Mathers, McNally, N. Kithsiri Gunawardena, Nhachi, Nilanthi de Silva, Odio, Otero, Peinan, Persson, Petite, Pozio, Praba-Egge, Pugh, Ranjan Premaratna, Rojas, Rudolph, Saborio, Saha, Sarker, Sharma, Smith, Snow, Swaroop, Tchoua, Thomas, Trape, Warrell, Warrell, White   +87 more
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Identifying high snakebite risk area under climate change for community education and antivenom distribution

Scientific Reports, 2023
Snakebite is one of the largest risks from wildlife, however little is known about venomous snake distribution, spatial variation in snakebite risk, potential changes in snakebite risk pattern due to climate change, and vulnerable human population.
Masoud Yousefi, Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Marc Grünig, Anooshe Kafash, Mahdi Rajabizadeh, Eskandar Rastegar Pouyani   +5 more
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A long-term observational study of paediatric snakebite in Kilifi County, south-east Kenya [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023
Introduction Estimates suggest that one-third of snakebite cases in sub-Saharan Africa affect children. Despite children being at a greater risk of disability and death, there are limited published data.
Abouyannis, Michael, Adetifa, Ifedayo M, Amadi, David, Berkley, James A, Boga, Mwanamvua, Casewell, Nicholas R, Hamaluba, Mainga, Lalloo, David G, Mturi, Neema, Nyaguara, Amek, Ouma, Nelson   +10 more
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Exploring the Utility of Recombinant Snake Venom Serine Protease Toxins as Immunogens for Generating Experimental Snakebite Antivenoms

Toxins, 2022
Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that causes high rates of global mortality and morbidity. Although snakebite can cause a variety of pathologies in victims, haemotoxic effects are particularly common and are typically characterised by ...
Nessrin Alomran, Patricia Blundell, Jaffer Alsolaiss, Edouard Crittenden, Stuart Ainsworth, Charlotte A. Dawson, Rebecca J. Edge, Steven R. Hall, Robert A. Harrison, Mark C. Wilkinson, Stefanie K. Menzies, Nicholas R. Casewell   +11 more
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A therapeutic combination of two small molecule toxin inhibitors provides broad preclinical efficacy against viper snakebite

Nature Communications, 2020
Snakebite is a life-threatening neglected tropical disease that is currently treated using different antibody-based antivenoms, each effective against bites of specific snake species, but not others. Here, the authors show that a combination of two toxin-
Laura-Oana Albulescu, Chunfang Xie, Stuart Ainsworth, Jaffer Alsolaiss, Edouard Crittenden, Charlotte A. Dawson, Rowan Softley, Keirah E. Bartlett, Robert A. Harrison, Jeroen Kool, Nicholas R. Casewell   +10 more
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Estimating economic and disease burden of snakebite in ASEAN countries using a decision analytic model

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Background Understanding the burden of snakebite is crucial for developing evidence-informed strategies to pursue the goal set by the World Health Organization to halve morbidity and mortality of snakebite by 2030.
Chanthawat Patikorn, Jörg Blessmann, Myat Thet Nwe, Patrick Joseph G. Tiglao, Taksa Vasaruchapong, Tri Maharani, Uyen Vy Doan, Syafiq Asnawi Zainal Abidin, Ahmad Khaldun Ismail, Iekhsan Othman, Suthira Taychakhoonavudh, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk   +11 more
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Snakebite envenoming. [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills >100,000 people and maims >400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are particularly vulnerable; snakebite envenoming perpetuates the cycle of poverty.
Calvete, Juan J, Gutiérrez, José María, Habib, Abdulrazaq G, Harrison, Robert, Warrell, David A, Williams, David J   +5 more
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Analysis of News Media-Reported Snakebite Envenoming in Nepal during 2010-2022.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023
BackgroundSnakebite envenoming is a well-known medical emergency in the Terai of Nepal in particular. However, there is an epidemiological knowledge gap. The news media data available online provide substantial information on envenomings.
Deb P Pandey, Narayan B Thapa
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Snakebite envenoming in Africa remains widely neglected and demands multidisciplinary attention [PDF]

Nature Communications
Snakebite envenoming can cause morbidity, permanent disability or death but treatment and prevention thereof remains highly inadequate in Africa. Overcoming structural and financial barriers that impede existing initiatives to improve medical management ...
Philipp Berg, Francois Theart, Marcel van Driel, Esta L. Saaiman, Lise-Bethy Mavoungou   +4 more
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