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GENEVA, Switzerland - The problem of snake bite s, which kill tens of thousands of people each year, is being exacerbated by climate-induced flooding in a number of countries with little access to antivenoms, the WHO warned Tuesday.Each year, as many as 2.7 million people are bitten by poisonous snakes, with up to an estimated 138,000 deaths."One person dies from snake bite every four to six minutes," David Williams, a World Health Organization snakebit expert, told reporters in Geneva.
Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, has access to just around 2.5 percent of the treatments it is estimated to need.The UN health agency explained in 2019 that production of life-saving antivenoms had been abandoned by a number of companies since the 1980s, sparking a grave shortage in Africa and some Asian countries.
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