About the Authors

David J. Williams

williamsd@who.int

Affiliations Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Mohd Abul Faiz

Affiliation Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Bernadette Abela-Ridder

Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Stuart Ainsworth

Affiliation Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Parasitology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Tommaso C. Bulfone

Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrea D. Nickerson

Affiliation California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Abdulrazaq G. Habib

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Bayero University Kano, Kano, Nigeria

Thomas Junghanss

Affiliation Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hui Wen Fan

Affiliation Divisão Bioindustrial, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Michael Turner

Affiliation Infection and Immuno-Biology, Wellcome, London, United Kingdom

Robert A. Harrison

Affiliation Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh

David A. Warrell

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder is an employee of the World Health Organization. Dr David Williams is engaged as a consultant to the World Health Organization. The majority of authors (excepting Dr Abela-Ridder, Dr Ainsworth, Mr Bulfone and Ms Nickerson) are members of the WHO Snakebite Envenoming Working Group. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.