Snakebite Envenoming
A neglected rural killer with an effective treatment that rarely reaches victims.
Severity score
21.7
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Snakebite kills around 100,000 people a year and permanently disables three times as many, overwhelmingly poor agricultural workers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Antivenom supply chains are fragile, expensive and often region-mismatched.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
32Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
34People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
8Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
18Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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