Current estimates suggest that 1.8–2.7 million people are envenomed due to snakebite every year, resulting in 81,000–138,000 deaths and 400,000 cases of morbidity annually, predominantly affecting those in the tropics and sub-tropics1,2,3. One of the leading causes of snakebite-induced morbid...
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Snake envenoming is recognised as a major global health issue with large numbers of deaths and cases of enven- oming occurring each year in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world1. Although antivenom is the accepted treatment for snake envenoming, there is a shortage of antivenoms ...
Fifty or more non-native, venomous snake exposures are reported to U.S. poison centers each year, a third of which result in serious clinical effects, including deaths. Exotic snakes are easily obtained, both legally and illegally, at trade shows or via the Internet. The AAPCC Toxic Exposure...
A recently study about worldwide incidence of snakebites estimated that at least 421.000 cases of envenoming and 20.000 deaths occur yearly. The same report recognizes that these figures are based on epidemiological data that are often fragmentary and the actual statistics may be as high as 1.841...
(2015) study, the disease did not progress toward life-threatening stages, resulting in no “natural” deaths, McKenzie and colleagues (2020b) also challenged infected snakes with brumation, leading to a higher mortality rate. These data suggest that brumation and lower temperatures may have a...
Snakes are of great human interest due to the existence of many dangerously venomous species which are responsible for tens of thousands of human deaths per year3. All the venomous species have a venom gland that synthesizes, stores and secretes a complex mixture of biological molecules including...
(circa. 50–200 per species) that vary inter- and intra-specifically and function to immobilise and/or kill prey1,2,3,4. Snakes can also deploy their venom defensively, and such bites result in 100,000 deaths each year, with 3–5 times that number of people suffering from long-term...
These species cause hundreds of thousands of bites and tens of thousands of deaths each year [24]. The most dangerous venomous species in this part of the world are the spectacled cobra (Naja naja), the banded krait (Bungarus caeruleus), the saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus) and the ...
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that represents a public health issue mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with a total number of snakebites per year estimated to be around 5.4 million, resulting in more than 100,000 deaths [1,2,3]. The main patholog...