Snakebite envenoming

JM Gutiérrez, JJ Calvete, AG Habib… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills> 100,000 people and
maims> 400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are …

Causes and consequences of snake venom variation

NR Casewell, TNW Jackson, AH Laustsen… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Snake venoms are mixtures of toxins that vary extensively between and within snake
species. This variability has serious consequences for the management of the world's 1.8 …

[PDF][PDF] Snakebite envenoming: a strategy for prevention and control

World Health Organization - 2019 - apps.who.int
SNAKEBITE ENVENOMING Page 1 SNAKEBITE ENVENOMING A strategy for prevention and
control Page 2 SNAKEBITE ENVENOMING A strategy for prevention and control Page 3 …

Snakebite envenomation turns again into a neglected tropical disease!

JP Chippaux - Journal of venomous animals and toxins including …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
On June 9th, 2017 WHO categorized snakebite envenomation into the Category A of the
Neglected Tropical Diseases. This new situation will allow access to new funding, paving …

Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots

J Longbottom, FM Shearer, M Devine, G Alcoba… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Snakebite envenoming is a frequently overlooked cause of mortality and
morbidity. Data for snake ecology and existing snakebite interventions are scarce, limiting …

Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

W Suraweera, D Warrell, R Whitaker, G Menon… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The World Health Organization call to halve global snakebite deaths by 2030 will require
substantial progress in India. We analyzed 2833 snakebite deaths from 611,483 verbal …

Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019

Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health
Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal …

Estimating deaths from cardiovascular disease: a review of global methodologies of mortality measurement

NJ Pagidipati, TA Gaziano - Circulation, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
750 Circulation February 12, 2013 30% of all subjects, these differences crossed a major
disease category. Interestingly, this study confirmed that diseases of the circulatory system …

A therapeutic combination of two small molecule toxin inhibitors provides broad preclinical efficacy against viper snakebite

LO Albulescu, C Xie, S Ainsworth, J Alsolaiss… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Snakebite is a medical emergency causing high mortality and morbidity in rural tropical
communities that typically experience delayed access to unaffordable therapeutics. Viperid …

The king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system

FJ Vonk, NR Casewell, CV Henkel… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Snakes are limbless predators, and many species use venom to help overpower relatively
large, agile prey. Snake venoms are complex protein mixtures encoded by several …