Snakebite Mortality in India: A Nationally Representative Mortality Survey

Mohapatra, Bijayeeni; A. Warrell, David; Suraweera, Wilson; Bhatia, Prakash; Dhingra, Neeraj; Jotkar, Raju; S. Rodriguez, Peter; Mishra, Kaushik; Whitaker, Romulus; Jha, Prabhat; the Million Death Study Collaborators, for

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001018

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Snakebite Mortality in India: A Nationally Representative Mortality Survey

Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases • Apr 12, 2011

Authors:

Bijayeeni Mohapatra

David A. Warrell

Wilson Suraweera

Abstract

BACKGROUND: 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 n...

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Medicine

Mortality rate

Demography

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