The timing is right to end snakebite deaths in South Asia

BMJ. 2019 Jan 22:364:k5317. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k5317.

Abstract

Regional collaboration is crucial to end preventable deaths and disability from snakebites in South Asia, say Ravikar Ralph and colleagues

MeSH terms

  • Antidotes / supply & distribution
  • Antidotes / therapeutic use
  • Antivenins / adverse effects
  • Antivenins / therapeutic use*
  • Bangladesh / epidemiology
  • Clinical Competence
  • Epidemiological Monitoring
  • Health Education
  • Humans
  • Immunologic Factors / supply & distribution
  • Immunologic Factors / therapeutic use
  • India / epidemiology
  • Nepal / epidemiology
  • Pakistan / epidemiology
  • Quality of Health Care*
  • Snake Bites / diagnosis
  • Snake Bites / drug therapy*
  • Snake Bites / mortality*
  • Snake Bites / prevention & control
  • Sri Lanka / epidemiology
  • Time-to-Treatment

Substances

  • Antidotes
  • Antivenins
  • Immunologic Factors