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Project: Tackling the global snakebite crisis<\/h2>\n

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Tackling the global snakebite crisis: Opportunities for participatory approaches to ecology and health in the Digital Era<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cSnakebites are killing more people than Ebola and landmines\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Snakebite is the second neglected tropical killer being responsible for over 100,000 human deaths and 400,000 victims of disability and disfigurement globally every year.<\/p>\n

Surprised?<\/b><\/p>\n

Snakebite mostly affects poor and rural communities in developing and emerging countries, where both snakebite is more frequent and access to life-saving healthcare (e.g. antivenom) is limited or absent. Sub-Saharan Africa and South and South-East Asia are among the most affected areas of the world, but China is also suffering with more than 4,000 deaths every year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, snakebite is severely neglected by international and national policy makers and donors, pharmaceutical industry, media and even academia. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) refers to a \u201cpublic health emergency gone under the radar\u201d<\/a> stressing on the lack of reliable reporting systems and a major underestimation of the global burden of snakebite, which makes this not only a humanitarian crisis but also a crisis of data and scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Pierre-Yves Bernard\/MSF<\/pre>\n
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Let\u2019s work together to tackle this crisis! Here some research and implementation challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n