Neglected tropical diseases: Difference between revisions

Snakebite was added to the list in 2017, after years of criticism of the WHO by activists for not making it a priority.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|title=Snakebite finally makes a WHO list of top global health priorities|url=https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/12/snakebite-who-priority/|website=STAT|access-date=18 June 2017|date=12 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613124606/https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/12/snakebite-who-priority/|archive-date=13 June 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The [[Epidemiology of snakebites|greatest burden of snakebite morbidity]] is in India and Southeast Asia. Globally, there are an estimated 421,000 envenomings each year (about 1 in 4 snakebites) and 20,000 deaths, but snakebites often go unreported.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kasturiratne A, Wickremasinghe AR, de Silva N, Gunawardena NK, Pathmeswaran A, Premaratna R, Savioli L, Lalloo DG, de Silva HJ | display-authors = 6 | title = The global burden of snakebite: a literature analysis and modelling based on regional estimates of envenoming and deaths | journal = PLoS Medicine | volume = 5 | issue = 11 | pages = e218 | date = November 2008 | pmid = 18986210 | pmc = 2577696 | doi = 10.1371
* /journal.pmed.0050218 }}</ref>