Kenya
Africa boasts some of the world’s deadliest snakes, yet it has an alarming shortage of the life-saving snakebite treatment.
The continent sees about half a million snakebites that need treatment every year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Campaigners now want Africa’s antivenom shortage to be treated as a public health crisis.
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