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Bringing antivenoms to Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bringing antivenoms to Sub-Saharan Africa
Nat Biotechnol.
2007 Feb.
Abstract
To reduce unacceptably high death rates from snakebite envenomation, sub-Saharan Africa must adopt not only a new generation of multivalent biotech antivenoms, but also an infrastructure to deliver them.
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