Snake Bites In Siraha District

I am just reading this article that discusses the number of people reportedly bitten by snakes in the Siraha district of Nepal - more than 300 per month!!!!

The article goes on to say that most victims tend to seek treatment from local shamans (a priest or "medicine man") and only go to hospitals as a last resort - often with fatal results.

Education and training is a part of the solution, but the question of how to provide it in an effective and ongoing manner has yet to be answered.

Graphic Examples From Cambodia

Later this year Living with Wildlife is hoping to receive funding so that presenters will be able to travel to Cambodia to teach people how to greatly reduce the chance of being bitten by snakes.

I have just been looking at some graphic examples of what snake bite has done to Cambodian victims (the examples are not pleasant, but have a look at them here, here and here.

If these types of injuries are to be reduced it is imperative that the Cambodian people be given the opportunity to receive the type of training that Living with Wildlife can offer.

Fingers crossed we receive the funding.

Three Deaths In One Article

Just received advice of three separate deaths by snake bite in Nepal - everything from a 22 month old child who was bitten while playing in his house to a 73 year old man who was bitten while sleeping in his cow shed!!!!

Have a read of the article - it defies belief reading this from the comfort of my quiet suburban home!!!!

More Than Just Snakes To Worry About

I have just been reading this article from New Zealand about a marathon runner who took part in the Gobi Desert ultra-marathon in China.

The threat of snake bite was only one of many dangers these runners faced - you have to be a special type of person to even consider attempting something like this!!!

Nepalese Snake Bite Death in India

I have just been reading this article where a Nepalese worker has died from a snake bite whilst working in paddy fields in the Punjab region of India.

Another sad example of death by snake bite to the people of Nepal.

Deaths By Snake Bite In Nepal Continue!!!

Just reading this article about another person who has died from a snake bite in Nepal.

It is not until you really start looking into something that you begin to understand the significance of the problem. Prior to being told about the number of people being bitten and killed by snakes throughout Nepal I had little to no understanding of the size of the problem - my eyes have certainly been opened now!!!

With all the international aid out there I find it incredulous that there is not someone (person or organisation) who has not taken up the cause to help the Nepalese people with this problem.

The philosophical side of me screams that if we still live in a world where you risk the chance of being bitten and killed by a snake while you simply sleep in your house then as a united global nation there must be a way that we can make this change.

Perhaps this is too much to ask - if so, how sad.

Another Death By Snake Bite In Nepal

I have just been reading this article about another Nepalese person who has died from a snake bite.

A 50 year old man has been bitten while asleep in his home and when he was taken to a hospital for treatment his relatives were advised that it would better to take him to another hospital but they could not do so due to "poor economic conditions" (which I assume meant they could not afford to).

It is when you read articles like this that you really appreciate how lucky our lives really are.