Snake-Bite in Nepal

A clinico-epidemiological study of snake bite in Nepal.

Envenoming from snake bite is an important medical condition, frequently encountered at the emergency department of BPKIHS hospital (Dharan, Nepal). This is a retrospective study of 52 cases of suspected snake bite who presented at the department from August 1993 to November 1994. Analysis of the data showed that snake bite was more frequent between the ages of 11 to 20 years (36.7%) and 2.5 ti...

Snake bite.

Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease, especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has been largely ignored by medical science. Snake venoms are rich in protein and peptide toxins that have specificity for a wide range of tissue receptors, making them clinically challenging and scientifically fascina...

Snake-Bite

The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite.

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an additional penalty of poverty. Like malaria, deng...

Snake Bite in India

paratively simple matter.* Unfortunately, it is only rarely that the body of the snake is produced for inspection. Accordingly, the medical man has to diagnose the case on signs and symptoms alone. A history of snake bite is available. Krait and cobra bites are fairly easy to diagnose?though difficult to distinguish between. There is at first pain at the site of the wound which later gives plac...