About 64,100 people die every year in India from snakebites, out of a total of 78,600 deaths worldwide from the cause, local newspaper The Hindu reported on Sunday, citing an international study, Xinhua reported.

The international study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, was conducted by a team led by Soumyadeep Bhaumik, an international public health specialist at the George Institute for Global Health in India, along with researchers from 21 other countries. the source is cited.

“Snake bite is a long-recognized public health problem in India and many other low- and middle-income countries. But the global death rate from snakebite was unknown until recently,” Bhaumik said.

The expert noted that according to recent studies, “the majority of snakebite deaths worldwide occur in India, accounting for 64,100 out of a total of 78,600.”

The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of snakebite deaths annually at 16,100, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 5,790 and Rajasthan at 5,230, the study found.

India’s snakebite death rate is 4 per 100,000 people, one of the highest in the world, well above the global snakebite death rate of 0.8 per 100,000 people, according to the study. (Agerpress)

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