{"id":117743,"date":"2019-05-16T06:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117743"},"modified":"2019-05-16T07:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:01:19","slug":"snakebites-are-worlds-biggest-hidden-health-crisis-killing-up-to-138000-people-a-year-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117743","title":{"rendered":"Snakebites are &#8216;world&#8217;s biggest hidden health crisis&#8217; killing up to 138,000 people a year | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\">A multi-million pound fund has been launched to improve treatment for venomous snakebites, which are thought to kill up to 138,000 people a year.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) figure is an upper-estimate because bites are not always recorded effectively in the countries they are most common.<\/p>\n<p>Of the roughly 5.4million people who suffer venomous bites around the world each year, 400,000 suffer life-changing injuries such as paralysis or amputations.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have described snakebites as the world&#8217;s biggest hidden health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Existing methods to make antivenom, using antibodies extracted from horses, have not changed since the 19th century and lead to a high risk of contamination and adverse reactions in patients.<\/p>\n<p>Wellcome, the London-based independent global charitable foundation, has announced \u00a380m in funding for a new programme to focus on changing the way treatments are researched and delivered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia image\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/05\/768x432\/skynews-bush-viper-sub-saharan-africa_4670155.jpg?20190516045646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/05\/384x216\/skynews-bush-viper-sub-saharan-africa_4670155.jpg?20190516045646 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/05\/768x432\/skynews-bush-viper-sub-saharan-africa_4670155.jpg?20190516045646 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/05\/1600x900\/skynews-bush-viper-sub-saharan-africa_4670155.jpg?20190516045646 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/05\/2048x1152\/skynews-bush-viper-sub-saharan-africa_4670155.jpg?20190516045646 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt=\"Bush vipers are found in sub-Saharan Africa\"><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-article-image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\">\n<span class=\"sdc-article-image__visually-hidden\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"sdc-article-image__caption-text\">Bush vipers are found in sub-Saharan Africa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Professor William Hayes from the department of Earth and biological sciences at Loma Linda University, Southern California, survived a bite from a baby rattle snake.<\/p>\n<p>He told Sky News it &#8220;hurt like a son of a gun&#8221; and was &#8220;not a pleasant experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Hayes also told us about some of the world&#8217;s deadliest snakes.<\/p>\n<p>Several factors needed to considered when assessing the the relative danger of a species, such as their proximity to human populations, their venom toxicity, and how widely-spread they are.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-million pound fund has been launched to improve treatment for venomous snakebites, which are thought to kill up to 138,000 people a year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) figure is an upper-estimate because bites are not always recorded effectively in the countries they are most common. Of the roughly 5.4million people who suffer venomous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[12035,12034,9247],"class_list":["post-117743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-health-crisis","tag-snakebite","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}