Nicholas Roberts

Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 25-10-2022

DOI: 10.1038/S41467-022-33627-9

Abstract: Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous animal deaths due to snakes by location, age, year, and sex, and applied these proportions to venomous animal contact mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study. In 2019, 63,400 people (95% uncertainty interval 38,900–78,600) died globally from snakebites, which was equal to an age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) of 0.8 deaths (0.5–1.0) per 100,000 and represents a 36% (2–49) decrease in ASMR since 1990. India had the greatest number of deaths in 2019, equal to an ASMR of 4.0 per 100,000 (2.3—5.0). We forecast mortality will continue to decline, but not sufficiently to meet WHO’s goals. Improved data collection should be prioritized to help target interventions, improve burden estimation, and monitor progress.

Mortality from snakebite envenomation: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC

Date: 09-11-2021

DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-1021472/V1

Abstract: Venomous snakebite is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous animal deaths due to snakes by location, age, year, and sex, and applied these proportions to venomous animal contact mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study. In 2019, 63,400 people (95% uncertainty interval 38,900–78,600) died globally from snakebites, which was equal to an age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) of 0.8 deaths (0.5–1.0) per 100,000 and represents a 36% (2–49) decrease in ASMR since 1990. India had the greatest number of deaths in 2019, equal to an ASMR of 4.0 per 100,000 (2.3-5.0). We forecast mortality will continue to decline, but not sufficiently to meet the WHO’s goals. Improved data collection should be prioritized to help target interventions, improve burden estimation, and monitor progress.

The global burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 04-2019

DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30685-6

Institute For Health Metrics And Evaluation

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University Of Washington

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Tufts University

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Weill Cornell Medicine

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