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Venomous Snakebites

Medicina, 2011
More than 5 million people are bitten by venomous snakes annually and more than 100 000 of them die. In Europe, one person dies due to envenomation every 3 years. There is only one venomous snake species in Lithuania – the common adder (Vipera berus) – which belongs to the Viperidae family; however, there are some exotic poisonous snakes in the zoos ...
Dalia, Adukauskienė, Eglė, Varanauskienė, Agnė, Adukauskaitė   +2 more
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Epidemiological, Clinical and Treatment Aspects Related to Snakebites in Dogs and Cats

Revista de Medicina Veterinaria, 2015
Annually, around 5,400,000 snakebites occur worldwide, 50% of which produce poisoning, and 2.5% of which result in death. In Latin America, 150,000 snakebites and 5,000 deaths are estimated for this cause.
Silvia Posada Arias
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Epidemiology of snakebites in Kedougou region (eastern Senegal) : comparison of various methods for assessment of incidence and mortality [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Although considered a public health issue in Senegal, the actual incidence and mortality from snakebite are not known. In the present study, an epidemiological survey was carried out in Kedougou region, southeastern Senegal, where ...
Camara, B., Chippaux, Jean-Philippe, Diouf, A., Kane, O., Lam, A.   +4 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., Lakshminarayanan, Karthik, Layfield, Harry J., Mehmi, Amita, Patel, Ketan, Ravishankar, Divyashree, Salim, Anika, Sonavane, Medha, Trim, Steven A., Vaiyapuri, Rajendran, Vaiyapuri, Sakthivel, Vallance, Thomas M., Williams, Harry F.   +12 more
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Retrospective study on the incidence of envenomation and accessibility to antivenom in Burkina Faso [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Snakebite is a common neglected public health issue, especially in poor rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. Passive immunotherapy with safe and effective antivenom is the only approved treatment for it. This study aimed
Chippaux, Jean-Philippe, Gampini, S., Nassouri, S., Semde, R.   +3 more
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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Long-Term Outcomes of Snakebite in Taiwan

Toxins, 2020
Herein, we review the characteristics of the six predominant venomous snakes in Taiwan and the effects of traditional Chinese medicine on the long-term outcomes of snakebite venom.
Teng-I Huang, Ching-Liang Hsieh
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Snakebite and its socio-economic impact on the rural population of Tamil Nadu, India [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Snakebite represents a significant health issue worldwide, affecting several million people each year with as many as 95,000 deaths. India is considered to be the country most affected, but much remains unknown about snakebite incidence in
A Kasturiratne, Anburaj Jeyaraj, B Mohapatra, D Williams, DA Warrell, DK Kochar, E Alirol, E. Gail Hutchinson, ID Simpson, J White, JB Harris, JK Joseph, JM Gutierrez, JM Gutierrez, Jonathan M. Gibbins, Joshua Yukich, JP Chippaux, Kameshwaran Nattamaisundar, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, LR Sharma, M. Fazil Baksh, Prabu Gajjeraman, R Rahman, Rajendran Vaiyapuri, Rajesh Ashokan, RS Blaylock, S Fox, Sakthivel Vaiyapuri, SK Sharma, SK Sutherland, Viswanathan Chandran   +30 more
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Medicinal and ethnoveterinary remedies of hunters in Trinidad [PDF]

, 2001
Background Ethnomedicines are used by hunters for themselves and their hunting dogs in Trinidad. Plants are used for snakebites, scorpion stings, for injuries and mange of dogs and to facilitate hunting success. Results Plants used include Piper hispidum,
M Heinrich, NL Etkin, S Moodie-Kublalsingh, R Wall, ME Alkins, SA Nishioka, JC Murphy, MT Jorge, J Kenny, LD George Angus, MJ Hutt, P Melo, JO Boos, CH Browner, G Bourdy, WH Hodge, DS Nunes, J Serpell, EB Russo, EF Im Thurn, E Roth Walter, RR Mole, PA Dennis, D Hazlett, JA Duke, MJ Martínez-Lirola, AB Carr, E Davis, W Wilbert, Bonnie Beaver, G Urton, WV Branan, AL Fuly, I Francischetti, R Otero, HC Castro, L Thomas, NA Pereira, H Wagner, PJ Houghton, R Ejzemberg, MS Abubakar, W Martz, R Reyes-Chilpa, O Castro, PA Melo, A Borges, H Daisley, CM McCorkle, JA Duke, JF Morton, W Wong, FG Coe, DA Lachman-White, LM Girón, JJ Moreno, C Yoosook, P Tuntiwachwuttikul, RH Cichewicz, H Wagner, B Frei, AA Al-Qarawi, SC Comerford, W Wilbert, PN Honychurch, R Verpoorte, R Otero, I Indrayanto, K Inoue, E Osim, J Laferriere, W Setzer, MW Bernart, WB Mors, Anon, AJJ Van den Berg, LF Villegas, C Hufford, IT Matsuse, RP Labadie, JF Morton, JF Morton, S Horsten, JF Morton, RE Omoregbe, B Das, C Auvin-Guette, WD MacRae, JX de-Vries, MP Gupta, J Mills, C Desmarchelier, JA Duke, C Desmarchelier, C Desmarchelier, C Desmarchelier, E Mongelli, WR Stimson, ML Tan, R Hegnauer, T Plowman, MA Kay, R Hansel, R Hegnauer, L Joly, V Muñoz, T Arnason, FG Coe, JB Calixto, NV Rajeshkumar, KCS Chen Liu, KS Satyan, ARS Santos, B Burke, MO Nwosu, K Jenett-Siems, H Hirschhorn, F Ayala Flores, B-N Zhou, J-L Longuefosse, R Novaretti, D Rivera, E Yesilada, E Blanco, A Cáceres, R Hegnauer, R Hegnauer, A Filipov, A Cáceres, G Schmeda-Hirschmann, VS Frutuoso, AK Bhargava, FI Freire M de, J Jakupovic, S Borkosky, R Hegnauer, R Otero, C Lans   +137 more
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Impact of tourniquet use on severity of snakebite envenoming in Chongqing, China: a single-center retrospective study

Journal of International Medical Research
Objective To identify risk factors associated with snakebite severity and determine whether tourniquet use can affect the severity and outcome of snakebites.
Qian Yang, Yunhan Gao, Weijie Fu, Shaying Ma   +3 more
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Association Between Fear and Beauty Evaluation of Snakes: Cross-Cultural Findings

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
According to the fear module theory, humans are evolutionarily predisposed to perceive snakes as prioritized stimuli and exhibit a fast emotional and behavioral response toward them.
Eva Landová, Eva Landová, Natavan Bakhshaliyeva, Markéta Janovcová, Markéta Janovcová, Šárka Peléšková, Šárka Peléšková, Mesma Suleymanova, Jakub Polák, Jakub Polák, Akif Guliev, Daniel Frynta, Daniel Frynta   +12 more
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