Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

• DOI: 10.7554/elife.54076
• Publication Date: 2020-07-07T00:00:18Z
• Authors: Wilson Suraweera; David Warrell; Romulus Whitaker; Geetha Menon; Rashmi Rodrigues; Sze Hang Fu; Rehana Begum; Prabha Sati; Kapila Piyasena; Mehak Bhatia; Patrick Brown; Prabhat Jha
• Keywords: Verbal autopsy

The World Health Organization call to halve global snakebite deaths by 2030 will require substantial progress in India. We analyzed 2833 from 611,483 verbal autopsies the nationally representative Indian Million Death Study 2001 2014, and conducted a systematic literature review 2000 2019 covering 87,590 snakebites. estimate that India had 1.2 million (average 58,000/year) 2019. Nearly half occurred at ages 30–69 years over quarter children < 15 years. Most home rural areas. About 70% eight higher burden states during rainy season low altitude. risk of an dying before age 70 is about 1 250, but notably some More crudely, we 1.11–1.77 bites 2015, which showed symptoms envenomation. Prevention treatment strategies might substantially reduce mortality