Snakebite Anti-Venom Set To Run Out Next Year

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The company that makes the anti-venom Fav-Afrique stopped producing it last year. Little Stocker/Shutterstock

If nothing is done, then by the middle of next year the world will run out of one of the safest and most effective treatments for snakebites. This could lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths, warns the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which urges the global health community to take action in tackling one of the planet’s most neglected public health emergencies.