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Re:AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snak... by AIPedant on Saturday April 19, 2025 @05:45AM (#43735344)
The "over 100,000 deaths" seems like a slight exaggeration, this paper bounds the estimate at 40,000-80,000: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33627-9 Wikipedia's "Epidemiology of snakebites" had similar estimates.

That's still a lot of people! But I was skeptical of 100,000, especially without a source.

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Re:AI-Designed Antivenoms: New Proteins to Block Deadly Snak... by Lol_arco on Saturday April 19, 2025 @06:47AM (#43735548)
Yes you're right! It's very hard to estimate how many people die from snake bite, for a thousand reasons (under reporting, incomplete snake databases, etc). This meta analysis indeed puts the numbers above 100.000 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11020954/ but I get where you're coming from! The uncertainty in these data is huge.
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