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It has only one product sanctioned by the W.H.O. 0.900

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Simplified: Kenya has only one antivenom product sanctioned by WHO.

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Each vial can cost 8,000 Kenyan shillings (about $62), and treatment may require five, 10 or even 50 vials depending on the amount of venom coursing through the body, a ruinous expense for many rural... 0.900

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Simplified: Each antivenom vial costs 8000 Kenyan shillings treatment may require many vials a ruinous expense.

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The country has now rid itself of Indian-made antivenom that was ineffective against local species. 0.900

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Simplified: Kenya has rid itself of ineffective Indian-made antivenom.

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To be effective, an antivenom should be tailored to the snake. 0.900

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Simplified: Antivenom should be tailored to the snake to be effective.

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Until 2023, the Kenyan market was rife with counterfeit or diluted antivenom. 0.900

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Simplified: Until 2023 Kenyan market had counterfeit or diluted antivenom.

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The fragmented market makes it hard for companies to earn healthy profits on antivenoms, so the supply has dwindled even as the need has risen. 0.800

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Simplified: Fragmented market makes it hard for companies to profit on antivenoms supply has dwindled.

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Antivenoms made in India, where kraits are most common, are useless against the black mambas or puff adders that terrorize Kenyans. 1.000

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Simplified: Indian antivenoms are useless against Kenyan black mambas or puff adders.

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But antivenoms from one country often don’t work on snakebites in another. 0.900

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Simplified: Antivenoms from one country often don't work on snakebites in another.

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That’s in part because clinicians are not trained to recognize bites or to treat patients. 0.800

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Simplified: Clinicians are not trained to recognize snakebites or treat patients.

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There is only one antivenom manufacturer in all of sub-Saharan Africa, Johannesburg-based South African Vaccine Producers. 1.000

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Simplified: Only one antivenom manufacturer exists in sub-Saharan Africa South African Vaccine Producers.

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In Kilifi, on the east coast of Kenya, the median time to hospital admission for a snakebite is nearly seven hours, and administration of antivenom takes another three. 0.900

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Simplified: In Kilifi Kenya median time to hospital admission for snakebite is nearly seven hours antivenom administration takes another three.

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It may help even days after a bite, but it should ideally be administered within six hours. 0.900

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Simplified: Antivenom may help days after snakebite but ideally administer within six hours.

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Antivenom must be kept cold and sterile and administered intravenously. 0.900

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Simplified: Antivenom must be kept cold sterile and administered intravenously.

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If the swelling crosses the joint closest to the bite, “that shows that the venom is rapidly acting,” said Cecilia Ngari, a scientist at the Kenya snakebite research center. 1.000

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Simplified: Swelling crossing the joint closest to snakebite shows rapidly acting venom according to Cecilia Ngari.

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The first hour after the bite is crucial. 0.900

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Simplified: The first hour after snakebite is crucial.

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Nearly everyone in Africa could survive a snakebite if they had the right antidote and care. 0.800

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Simplified: Nearly everyone in Africa could survive snakebite with right antidote and care.

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By the time he died two days later, his body had swelled to double its size, a hallmark of a puff adder bite, said his sister, Esther Nziu. 1.000

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Simplified: Ruth Munuve's husband died two days later his body swelled double its size a puff adder bite hallmark.

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Two hospitals scrambling to treat Covid patients turned him away. 1.000

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Simplified: Two hospitals turned away Ruth Munuve's husband due to Covid patients.

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They occur less often among pregnant women, but the outcomes — which include spontaneous abortion, ruptured placentas, abruption, fetal malformations and death to both mother and fetus — can be catast... 0.900

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Simplified: Snakebites occur less often among pregnant women but outcomes can be catastrophic.

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His last bite was in November 2018, from a water cobra. 0.900

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Simplified: Friede's last bite was November 2018 from water cobra

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