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
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.