{"id":124918,"date":"2021-08-10T18:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124918"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:00:20","slug":"at-1-2-million-india-has-highest-number-of-snakebites-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/at-1-2-million-india-has-highest-number-of-snakebites-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"At 1.2 million India has highest number of snakebites in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/at-1-2-million-india-has-highest-number-of-snakebites-in-the-world-heres-why-its-dangerous-7442747\/\"><b>Indian Express<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study by the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR), India has seen an estimated 1.2 million (12 lakh) snakebite deaths from 2000 to 2019, an average of 58,000 per year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Snakebite Deaths:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The snakebite envenoming <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(poisoning from snake bites) was classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a <strong>high-priority neglected tropical disease<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>About 5.4 million<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (54 lakh) snake bites occur globally each year, resulting in 1.8 to 2.7 million cases of envenoming.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Most of these occur <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In Asia, up to 2 million people are envenomed by snakes each year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Snakebite Cases in India:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>India has the highest number of snakebite <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cases and accounts for nearly 50% of the global snakebite deaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Farmers, labourers, hunters,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shepherds, snake rescuers, tribal and migrant populations, and those with limited access to education and healthcare are high-risk groups for snakebites.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Initiatives against Snakebite deaths:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>WHO\u2019s Roadmap for <\/b><b>snakebite envenoming(<\/b><b>SE): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WHO launched its roadmap with an aim<\/span><b> to halve death and disability from snakebite by 2030.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Moreover, ICMR <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has also started community awareness and health system capacity building from the year 2013. They are continuing their work through a national study funded by the National Task Force on snakebite, ICMR.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express What is the News? According to a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR), India has seen an estimated 1.2 million (12 lakh) snakebite deaths from 2000 to 2019, an average of 58,000 per year. About Snakebite Deaths: The snakebite envenoming (poisoning from snake bites) was classified by the World Health&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/at-1-2-million-india-has-highest-number-of-snakebites-in-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At 1.2 million India has highest number of snakebites in the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704838235},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}