Acute Kidney Injury Following Eastern Russell’s Viper (Daboia siamensis) Snakebite in Myanmar

Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease of global importance affecting at least 2.5 million people with more than 100,000 deaths annually.1,2 Morbidity and mortality are high in countries such as Myanmar, where recent hospital data reported 15,000 to 20,000 cases per year with case-fatality ratio of 10.9%.3 Experience elsewhere suggests that hospital-based data may underestimate the actual burden of snakebite by more than two-thirds.4,5