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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 ...