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English: Map showing the number of global snake envenomings, based on data by Kasturiratne et al., [1] who used the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) regions to group 227 countries. The countries appearing in each region can be found on the GBD Operations Manual .
  1. Kasturiratne, A; Wickremasinghe AR, de Silva N, Gunawardena NK, Pathmeswaran A, et al. (November 2008). " The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths ". PloS Medicine 5 (11). DOI : 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050218 . Retrieved on 2009-06-24 .

The 21 geographical regions are:

  1. Asia Pacific, High Income
  2. Asia, Central
  3. Asia, East
  4. Asia, South
  5. Asia, Southeast
  6. Australasia
  7. Caribbean
  8. Europe, Central
  9. Europe, Eastern
  10. Europe, Western
  11. Latin America, Andean
  12. Latin America, Central
  13. Latin America, Southern
  14. Latin America, Tropical
  15. North Africa / Middle East
  16. North America, High Income
  17. Oceania
  18. Sub-Saharan Africa, Central
  19. Sub-Saharan Africa, East
  20. Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern
  21. Sub-Saharan Africa, West
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