Global snakebite envenoming and mortality incidence is higher than previously reported (IMAGE)

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Global snakebite envenoming and mortality incidence is higher than previously reported

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Map of the estimated global mortality of snake envenoming (High estimate).

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Ediriweera D et al., 2026, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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