Snakebite incidence and case fatality rate in Agok, South Sudan
Channel: F1000
Date: 31/05/2016

In his presentation, Gabriel Alcoba from MSF Switzerland describes snakebite incidence and case fatality rate in Agok, South Sudan. The objectives of this work were to estimate incidence, mortality, health seeking behaviour and characteristics of different snakes. Using an exhaustive survey in eight randomly selected villages and hospital databases, MSF report the highest documented incidence of snakebites, with a very high mortality in untreated patients from three different data sources, and highlight the urgent need to find a safe and poly-valent antivenom.

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