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Ending the drought: New strategies for improving the flow of affordable, effective antivenoms in Asia and Africa
(2011-08-24)
The development of snake antivenoms more than a century ago should have heralded effective treatment of the scourge of snakebite envenoming in impoverished, mostly rural populations around the world. That snakebite still ...
A Call for Incorporating Social Research in the Global Struggle against Snakebite
(2015-09-17)
In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and parts of Oceania, envenoming after snakebite is a serious
public health problem. Conservative data suggest that between 1.2 and 5.5 million people
suffer snakebites every year, resulting ...
The Need for Full Integration of Snakebite Envenoming within a Global Strategy to Combat the Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Way Forward
(2013-06-13)
Snakebite envenoming constitutes a serious medical condition that primarily affects residents of rural communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and New Guinea [1], [2]. It is an occupational, environmental, and domestic ...
A multicomponent strategy to improve the availability of antivenom for treating snakebite envenoming
Una estrategia multicomponente para mejorar la disponibilidad del suero antiofídico para el tratamiento del envenenamiento por mordedura de serpiente
(2014-07-01)
Snakebite envenoming is a common but neglected public health problem, particularly in impoverished rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. The only validated treatment for this condition is passive ...
New approaches & technologies of venomics to meet the challenge of human envenoming by snakebites in India
(2013-07)
The direct estimate of 46,000 snakebite deaths in India in 2005 (1 for every 2 HIV/AIDS deaths), based on verbal autopsies, renders unrealistic the total of only 47,000 snakebite deaths in the whole world in 2010, obtained ...