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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022 Background The estimated five million snakebites per year are an important health problem that mainly affect rural poor populations. The global goal is to halve both mortality and morbidity from this neglected tropical disease by 2030.
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Snakebite and a Heart Murmur [PDF]
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2004 A 59-year-old commercial crawfisherman came to the emergency department complaining of a swollen, red, painful right hand and forearm and subjective fever. The hand was bitten by a snake 4 days earlier when the man was fishing. His only pertinent past history was that 3 years previously he had been sent for an echocardiogram when he saw a physician for
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American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 31-43, February 2025.Abstract Displaced people have not escaped war and do not live apart from it. This is evident in the material life of internally displaced Iraqi farmers seeking refuge in a concrete construction site, downstream from a cement‐processing plant in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kali Rubaii
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Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2018 Snakebite envenomation in Indonesia is a health burden that receives no attention from stakeholders. The high mortality and morbidity rate caused by snakebite in Indonesia is estimated from regional reports.
Farid Rifaie, Tri Maharani, Amir Hamidy
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 BackgroundPublished information on snakebite is rare in Bhutan although remarkably higher number of snakebites and associated deaths are reported from other South Asian countries.Aims and methodologyStructured questionnaire was used to collect knowledge ...
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2022 Background: Bothrops envenomations can often lead to complications, such as secondary infections. Methods: This cross-sectional study analyzed the medical records of all patients diagnosed with snakebite.
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2025.ABSTRACT This position paper explores famous colonial Australian politician Sir Henry Parkes use of relationships to reform colonial Australian mental healthcare by facilitating the integration of Nightingale‐trained nurses into hospitals for the insane in the late nineteenth century.
Toby Raeburn +3 more
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Snakebite Treatment in Tanzania: Identifying Gaps in Community Practices and Hospital Resources
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Snakebite envenoming causes more than 140,000 deaths annually and at least triple this number of disabilities. The World Health Organization classified snakebite as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2017 and developed a strategy to halve death and ...
Felicia Margono +4 more
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The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, 2023 Summary: Background: Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that mainly affects poor populations in rural areas. In hyperendemic regions, prevention could partially reduce the constant risk, but the population still needs timely access to ...
Carlos Ochoa +8 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019 Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that causes 138,000 deaths each year. Neurotoxic snake venoms contain small neurotoxins, including three-finger toxins (3FTxs), which can cause rapid paralysis in snakebite victims by blocking postsynaptic ...
Laura-Oana Albulescu +13 more
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