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- Title
Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019.
- Authors
GBD 2019 Snakebite Envenomation Collaborators; Roberts, Nicholas L. S.; Johnson, Emily K.; Zeng, Scott M.; Hamilton, Erin B.; Abdoli, Amir; Alahdab, Fares; Alipour, Vahid; Ancuceanu, Robert; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Anvari, Davood; Arabloo, Jalal; Ausloos, Marcel; Awedew, Atalel Fentahun; Badiye, Ashish D.; Bakkannavar, Shankar M.; Bhalla, Ashish; Bhardwaj, Nikha; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Bhaumik, Soumyadeep
- Abstract
Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous animal deaths due to snakes by location, age, year, and sex, and applied these proportions to venomous animal contact mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study. In 2019, 63,400 people (95% uncertainty interval 38,900–78,600) died globally from snakebites, which was equal to an age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) of 0.8 deaths (0.5–1.0) per 100,000 and represents a 36% (2–49) decrease in ASMR since 1990. India had the greatest number of deaths in 2019, equal to an ASMR of 4.0 per 100,000 (2.3—5.0). We forecast mortality will continue to decline, but not sufficiently to meet WHO's goals. Improved data collection should be prioritized to help target interventions, improve burden estimation, and monitor progress. Snakebite envenoming is a leading cause of mortality among neglected tropical diseases. Here, the authors analyze a global data repository and estimate that snakebite envenoming caused over 63,000 deaths in 2019, primarily concentrated in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Subjects
SOUTH Asia; SUB-Saharan Africa; WORLD Health Organization; SNAKEBITES; GLOBAL burden of disease; ANIMAL mortality; AUTOPSY; DATA libraries; NEGLECTED diseases
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-33627-9