From the hospital to the lab: How we reported the snakebite scandal – The Mail & Guardian

From the hospital to the lab: How we reported the snakebite scandal – The Mail & Guardian

Imagine that every time you go to work, you’re put at risk of a disease that could kill you in 30 minutes. What if the only medicine that can save you isn’t available in the first or second hospital you visit? And when you do track it down, it doesn’t work. That’s the stark reality faced by rural workers in sub-Saharan Africa, something my editor Fiona and I were growing to understand as we trawled along the coast of Kenya last year on a reporti…