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The Top 5 Countries with the Most Snakebites
| Country | Number of Envenomings (per year) |
Number of Deaths | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 81,399 | 15,000 |
| 2 | Sri Lanka | 32,902 | 948 |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 29,970 | 4,368 |
| 4 | Brazil | 29,536 | 290 |
| 5 | Mexico | 28,056 | 796 |
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Animals & Nature, Top 5 Most, India, South America
Sources: Anuradhani Kasturiratne, A. Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, N. Kithsiri Gunawardena, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Ranjan Premaratna, Lorenzo Savioli, David G Lalloo, H. Janaka de Silva. (2008). The Global Burden of Snakebite: "A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths." Please visit the source here
List Notes: Data is ranked by number of snake envenomings per year and is a LOW estimate. Deaths are a HIGH estimate.
Sources: Anuradhani Kasturiratne, A. Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, N. Kithsiri Gunawardena, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Ranjan Premaratna, Lorenzo Savioli, David G Lalloo, H. Janaka de Silva. (2008). The Global Burden of Snakebite: "A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths." Please visit the source here
List Notes: Data is ranked by number of snake envenomings per year and is a LOW estimate. Deaths are a HIGH estimate.
