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Articles for Snakebite Deaths

How delayed healthcare harms snakebite victims in North Bihar
3 months, 1 week ago

How delayed healthcare harms snakebite victims in North Bihar

The Hindu  

On an early muggy monsoon morning in August, Suman Devi, 30, heard a loud scream. “I rushed to call my relative from an adjacent house,” she says, heavily, at her home in Dubwalia village, Phulwaria block in Gopalganj district of north Bihar. In March this year, Babita Devi, from Pakri-Dumri village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district lost her husband, Tunnu Manjhi, …

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Snakebite a ‘Disease’ of Poverty: ICMR Has a Plan to Help WHO Achieve Its Goal to Cut Deaths by Half
1 year, 10 months ago

Snakebite a ‘Disease’ of Poverty: ICMR Has a Plan to Help WHO Achieve Its Goal to Cut Deaths by Half

News 18  

Posters, cartoon messages, videos on prevention and first aid — the Indian Council of Medical Research is ready with the plan to achieve the World Health Organization’s goal to cut down snakebite deaths to half by 2030. India’s apex health research institute has published the National Snakebite Project protocol aiming for community empowerment and capacity building of the public healthcare …

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India recorded 1.2 million snakebite deaths in the past two decades
4 years, 5 months ago

India recorded 1.2 million snakebite deaths in the past two decades

The Hindu  

India recorded a staggering 1.2 million snakebite deaths in the 20-year period from 2000 to 2019 with an average of 58,000 deaths caused by snakebite annually. The paper titled ‘Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study’ indicated that most of the envenomation was by Russell’s vipers followed by kraits and cobras. …

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