SA is simply where I live / have some heresay experience with. While snake bites are not unheard of, they are not exactly common either, so I'm skeptical on th

SA is simply where I live / have some heresay experience with. While snake bites are not unheard of, they are not exactly common either, so I'm skeptical on the topic. Nevertheless, I still think the poster on the original article is misleading. It headlines with "~5 million snake bites", while your citation puts it at anything between 1.2 to 5.4. Actual envenomings are between 420K to 1.8 million. That's a huge variance in itself, and the uncertainty is not reflected in the article much. My point is also that if they're inflating the estimated deaths by as much as the reported bites to estimated bites, it's likely incredibly incorrect. Deaths generally get investigated and reported, while lesser bites would not necessarily.