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21/09/2019 GMT

BBC World News - Snakebite: Nature's Ancient Killer

Tulip Mazumdar visits Kenya's new Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre.

BBC's Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has been given special access to Kenya's new Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre, the first of its kind in the region.

The World Health Organisation has described deadly snake attacks as "arguably the world's biggest hidden health crisis". Most victims are some of the poorest people on earth, living in remote areas of South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. Kenya's new Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre is the first of its kind in the region. The BBC's Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has been given special access to their work.


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