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. 

↑ 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:
Asia Pacific, High Income
Asia, Central
Asia, East
Asia, South
Asia, Southeast
Australasia
Caribbean
Europe, Central
Europe, Eastern
Europe, Western
Latin America, Andean
Latin America, Central
Latin America, Southern
Latin America, Tropical
North Africa / Middle East
North America, High Income
Oceania
Sub-Saharan Africa, Central
Sub-Saharan Africa, East
Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern
Sub-Saharan Africa, West
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