India has the most snakebite deaths in the world despite undercounting of cases
Representational image. | Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons India accounts for the highest number of snakebite cases and deaths in the world. A snakebite can kill, and survivors can be disabled. Yet, publicly available government data for snakebites are patchy – different data sets giving widely different numbers. There is also a class dimension to who is worst affected by snakebites: most victims live in rural, forested or agricultural areas, as snakes live and move more freely there. “There is no single registry for this data,” said Deepti Beri, a researcher at th...
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