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Snakebite steals millions of years of quality life in India

New data provide first estimate of the toll that snakebites take on survivors.
  1. Carrie Arnold

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Snakebites annually cost India’s citizens the equivalent of 3 million years of health and productivity. That figure, reported at a meeting last month, puts the spotlight on survivors of the bites who are left with disabling conditions such as amputation, kidney disease and severe scarring.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03327-9

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