{"id":196103,"date":"2022-07-18T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=196103"},"modified":"2022-07-18T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:26:55","slug":"snakebites-in-india-be-specially-chary-of-green-pit-vipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/snakebites-in-india-be-specially-chary-of-green-pit-vipers\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakebites in India: Be specially chary of green pit vipers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cBe specially chary of green pit vipers<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 17th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to a study, the antivenom available in India cannot counter the venom of the green pit viper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Green pit viper is behind most snakebite cases in the northeast.<\/span><\/p>\n

Data on snakebites<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to available data, over 1.4 million cases of snake bites are reported worldwide resulting in 1,25,000 fatalities annually.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over 46,000 people die due to snakebites every year in India which is the highest on earth. Out of which, 77% of the victims died outside healthcare facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of snakebites are reported in India between June and September. <\/span>About 58% of the victims are said to be farmers and labourers.<\/span><\/p>\n

How is antivenom derived in India?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The antivenom is derived from the \u201cBig Four\u201d snakes in India namely Russell\u2019s viper, Common Krait, Indian Cobra and Saw-scaled viper.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, 80% of all polyvalent antivenom derived in India comes from snakes caught in one district of Tamil Nadu which fails to address the diversity of venoms across the species.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, the venom from monocled cobra from West Bengal contains mostly neurotoxins while the same species from Arunachal Pradesh had cytotoxins in its venom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: <\/b>Neurotoxin is a poison that acts on the nervous system. Cytotoxins kill the cells in a body.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does the study say on Green Pit Viper?<\/b><\/h5>\n

G<\/span>reen pit viper is not more lethal than Russell\u2019s viper, but the hemotoxic venom it injects prevents the blood in the body from clotting resulting in internal bleeding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, the <\/span>antivenom available in India cannot counter the venom of the green pit viper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suggestions:<\/b> Experts have \u200b\u200bcalled for developing a range of antivenoms that can do what the Big four-snake concoction cannot. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBe specially chary of green pit vipers\u201d published in The Hindu on 17th July 2022. What is the News? According to a study, the antivenom available in India cannot counter the venom of the green pit viper. Note: Green pit viper is behind most snakebite cases in… Continue reading Snakebites in India: Be specially chary of green pit vipers<\/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":[10498],"class_list":["post-196103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704814628},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196103","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=196103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}