Antivenom for snakebites can be hard to find in Kenya, where about 4,000 snakebite victims die every year
Esther Kangali, who lost her right leg to a snake bite, walks outside her home in Kitui, Kenya, Monday, May 13, 2024. Overall in Kenya, about 4,000 snakebite victims die every year while 7,000 others experience paralysis or other health complications, according to the local Institute of Primate Research. . She looked down and saw a large snake coiling around her left leg. She screamed, and her mother came running.
Kitui County, where the Kangalis have their farm, has Kenya's second highest number of snakebite victims, according to the health ministry, which last year put annual cases at 20,000.
The researchers estimate the improved conventional antivenoms will take two or three years to reach the market. They estimate that Kenya will need 100,000 vials annually, but it's not clear how that much will be produced locally.
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