Representative imageDeaths from snake bites may be much rarer than earlier estimated, according to an 11-state survey funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). The survey also shows that 43% of such deaths occurred outside hospital settings or in transit and that snakebite envenomation (SBE) was a disease of impoverishment with 53% of victims being below the poverty line.According to the survey, the mortality rate from snake bite is roughly 0.3 per 100,000 population, much lower than the earlier estimate of 6 per 100,000 based on the One-Million-Death study led by the Registrar General of India from 1998 to 2014.An interim report of the survey published in Nature Communications, an open-access scientific journal, is based on a cross-sectional survey in which data was collec