The timing is right to end snakebite deaths in South Asia.

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Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Published: January 2019

Regional collaboration is crucial to end preventable deaths and disability from snakebites in South Asia, say

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