A new study estimates that snakebites resulted in the loss of 3,000 productive days of work and school in the Mopeia district, causing a median financial setback of 17 USD for each affected household. This is almost five times the cost of contracting uncomplicated malaria.
, is one of the largest community-based studies of snakebites to date. Nested within the demographic survey conducted by the Manhiça Health Research Center as part of the ISGlobal-led BOHEMIA project, the study reported close to 400 snakebites per 100,000 person-years at risk, impacting 2% of households in the preceding year.Snakebite envenoming is a silent global epidemic. Every year, it claims between 81,000 and 138,000 lives and inflicts severe disabilities on another 400,000 people.
"It was the perfect opportunity to join in and benefit from the malaria trial's infrastructure to fill the data gap on snakebites," says Emma O'Bryan, first author of the study. "Though no fatalities were recorded, this study highlights the significant disease and economic burden of snakebites in rural Mozambique and opens the doors for further related research. It is also an important call to attention for the health care sector in Mozambique to be prepared to deal with this public health issue," points out Charfudin Sacoor, co-author of the study and demographer at CISM.
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