Why Snakebites are a Global Health Problem

Credit: San Diego Zoo

Getting bitten by a poisonous snake is not just an individual injury -- rather it is now recognized as a global health hazard.  The World Health Organization estimates that between 80,000 and 136,000 people die from snakebite in each year. To put that in perspective, that is more than the number of people who died from Meningitis an…