Snakebite mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey.

• Main Authors: Bijayeeni Mohapatra (Author), David A Warrell (Author), Wilson Suraweera (Author), Prakash Bhatia (Author), Neeraj Dhingra (Author), Raju M Jotkar (Author), Peter S Rodriguez (Author), Kaushik Mishra (Author), Romulus Whitaker (Author), Prabhat Jha (Author), Million Death Study Collaborators (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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India has long been thought to have more snakebites than any other country. However, inadequate hospital-based reporting has resulted in estimates of total annual snakebite mortality ranging widely from about 1,300 to 50,000. We calculated direct estimates of snakebite mortality from a national mort...