Epidemiological profile of snake bite in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal with focus on underreporting of snake bite deaths

• Main Authors: Dayalbandhu Majumder (Author), Abhik Sinha (Author), Salil Kumar Bhattacharya (Author), Rama Ram (Author), Urmila Dasgupta (Author), A Ram (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in India. Very few community based epidemiological studies in India have been published so far on this issue. Most of the studies were carried out on hospital data. Previous community-based survey in the state revealed that only 22% snake b...