ArticleeLife2020
Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
127 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- A systematic review of variables associated with snakebite risk in spatial and temporal analyses.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2025Pooled it
- Toxicoepidemiology of poisoning exhibited in Indian population from 2010 to 2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
- Adjunctive Varespladib after antivenom administration for snakebite: A phase II randomized clinical trial.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Trial
- Oral varespladib for the treatment of snakebite envenoming in India and the USA (BRAVO): a phase II randomised clinical trial.BMJ global health · 2024Trial
- Admission point-of-care D-dimer for identifying haemostatic envenomation after snakebite: A prospective observational study.Toxicon: X · 2026Article
- Behavioural and environmental risk factors associated with snake-human conflict: A scoping systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Emphysema or Bronchiectasis with Pulmonary Nodules: Impact on The Risk of Malignancy.Thoracic research and practice · 2026Article
- The final frontier: can Kerala lay out a roadmap to a 'zero snakebite deaths initiative' for India?Tropical medicine and health · 2026Article
- Development of a deep learning based framework for classification of Indian venomous snakes integrated with explainable artificial intelligence for primary and emergency care providers.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Burden of Mortality and Morbidity Caused by Snakebites Contributes to Economic Loss in a Rural Population in India.Toxins · 2026Article
- Effects of organized guarding on mortality from human-elephant conflict in northeast India.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Exploring the impact of the common (4977 bp) and ATPase mitochondrial DNA deletion on the copy number and telomere length in a sample of infertile Iraqi men.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- Trends and risk factors for suicide mortality in India from 2001-2019: National mortality study.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Eburicoic Acid fromJournal of inflammation research · 2026Article
- Article
- Examining the Role of Treatment-seeking Behavior in Snakebite Mortality: A Narrative Review.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine · 2025Review
- Unveiling the nanotoxicology of snake venoms through functional and biochemical characterization of extracellular vesicles from Naja naja and Daboia russelii.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Climate change triggering shifts in venomous snakes hotspots and snakebite risk in India.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cross-sectional survey of the incidence, mortality and socioeconomic burden of snakebite envenoming in India.Nature communications · 2025Article
67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The World Health Organization call to halve global snakebite deaths by 2030 will require substantial progress in India. We analyzed 2833 snakebite deaths from 611,483 verbal autopsies in the nationally representative Indian Million Death Study from 2001 to 2014, and conducted a systematic literature review from 2000 to 2019 covering 87,590 snakebites. We estimate that India had 1.2 million snakebite deaths (average 58,000/year) from 2000 to 2019. Nearly half occurred at ages 30-69 years and over a quarter in children < 15 years. Most occurred at home in the rural areas. About 70% occurred in eight higher burden states and half during the rainy season and at low altitude. The risk of an Indian dying from snakebite before age 70 is about 1 in 250, but notably higher in some areas. More crudely, we estimate 1.11-1.77 million bites in 2015, of which 70% showed symptoms of envenomation. Prevention and treatment strategies might substantially reduce snakebite mortality in India.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.