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African Carpet Viper[/caption]
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s deadliest snakes, such as the black mamba and the carpet viper, which hunt and breed during the rainy seasons. Snakebites kill approximately 32,000 people in the region yearly, and leave 100,000 more individuals disabled. Some public health experts are calling this an epidemic, one that affects the poorest farmers.
To address the issue of sub-Saharan Africa’s venomous snakes, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 added envenomation to its list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (which...
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African Carpet Viper[/caption]
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s deadliest snakes, such as the black mamba and the carpet viper, which hunt and breed during the rainy seasons. Snakebites kill approximately 32,000 people in the region yearly, and leave 100,000 more individuals disabled. Some public health experts are calling this an epidemic, one that affects the poorest farmers.
To address the issue of sub-Saharan Africa’s venomous snakes, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 added envenomation to its list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (which...