How many people die from snakebites each year?
The real answer is that nobody knows for sure. You will hear a lot of statistics quoted, but it is generally accepted that there are roughly 8,000 venomous snakebites in the US annually. Fewer than 15 of those are fatal. Worldwide the numbers are generally in the millions, with some statisticians trying to account for remote villages in developing nations, where snakebites often go unreported. The World Health Organizations position is that there are around 5 million bites per year worldwide, with roughly 125,000 deaths.
