The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities
Being distant from Brazil's great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks when es...
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| description | Being distant from Brazil's great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks when estimating the incidence of these accidents in the country. The present work offers a critical review of the main estimates undertaken since 1954. It is interesting to note contradictions between textual and graphic information within the same article, variations over time in the work of a same researcher and differences among distinct authors, and that all these issues remain unmentioned or undiscussed. Comparison among such estimates and the data available at the Brazilian Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação - SINAN) creates an opportunity to identify the degree of imprecision present in those articles, and draws attention to the need for the production of studies at both the regional and national levels, based on concrete data collected at national, state and municipal levels, which has been available on the internet since 2001. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd3acd397f9846b5b93038ded86222b42022-12-22T01:59:59ZengSciELOJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases1678-91992013-11-0119012210.1186/1678-9199-19-29S1678-91992013000100205The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realitiesRosany BochnerBeing distant from Brazil's great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks when estimating the incidence of these accidents in the country. The present work offers a critical review of the main estimates undertaken since 1954. It is interesting to note contradictions between textual and graphic information within the same article, variations over time in the work of a same researcher and differences among distinct authors, and that all these issues remain unmentioned or undiscussed. Comparison among such estimates and the data available at the Brazilian Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação - SINAN) creates an opportunity to identify the degree of imprecision present in those articles, and draws attention to the need for the production of studies at both the regional and national levels, based on concrete data collected at national, state and municipal levels, which has been available on the internet since 2001.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992013000100205&lng=en&tlng=enIncidenceSnakebitesScorpionismEpidemiologyInformation systems |
| spellingShingle | Rosany Bochner The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases Incidence Snakebites Scorpionism Epidemiology Information systems |
| title | The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities |
| title_full | The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities |
| title_fullStr | The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities |
| title_full_unstemmed | The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities |
| title_short | The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities |
| title_sort | international view of envenoming in brazil myths and realities |
| topic | Incidence Snakebites Scorpionism Epidemiology Information systems |
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