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Treatment of snakebite in Australia: gathering the evidence
Author(s) -
Little Mark
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja13.11111
Subject(s) - citation , library science , public health , medicine , family medicine , psychology , computer science , pathology
[Extract] The World Health Organization has declared snakebite a neglected tropical disease. Although Australia has many of the world's most venomous snakes, the annual rate of envenoming here is much lower than in some other regions. In Australia, rates of snakebite are higher in tropical areas — a prospective study in the Northern Territory estimated the rate of envenoming to be 7.6 per 100 000 people per year. Sadly, there were at least three snakebite deaths in Queensland in the summer of 2012–2013