why do many people die of snake bite
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Tens of thousands of people die from snake bites worldwide every year. Lack of treatment and even the wrong medicine mean many of these deaths are preventable.
Snake bites may not strike you as being a major public health problem.
But in some parts of the world they are a daily risk, and can be lethal or life-changing.
Victims often do not get the treatment they need in time, if at all.
In other cases, they are given medicine to treat an injury caused by a different snake.
About 11,000 people a month are thought to die from venomous snakebites - similar to the number that died during the whole of the 2014-16 West Africa Ebola crises.
A further 450,000 people a year are thought to suffer life-changing injuries such as amputation and permanent disability.
The scale of the problem means snake bites are now classed as a priority neglected tropical disease.
Because the bite of snake contains venom and in body when it enters then the oxygen carrying capacity is reduced and the body of person turns blue. That's why people die because of snake bite...