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From the hospital to the lab: How we reported the snakebite scandal

You might think of snakebite as a niche issue rather than a devastating one. But it is thought to kill somewhere between 80,000 and 140,000 people a year.

  • Eyaaz
6 min read

eSwatini’s success against snakebites under threat after USAid funding freeze

Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre

  • Lukef
4 min read
The African Snakebite Institution estimates that more than 4 000 people are bitten by snakes annually although only a quarter of them are admitted to hospital. Only 10% of those require antivenom treatment. (Photo by Kemal Karagoz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

SA Vaccine Producers face delays in snakebite antivenom production

About 4 000 people are bitten by snakes annually but only a quarter of those being admitted to hospital and only 10% require antivenom

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read