HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM SNAKEBITES? “Here’s a statistic that might surprise you: Around 1 in 270 people in India die from snakebites by the age of 70. In total, around 50,000 to 60,000 people in India die from snakebites each year. In Australia, which is home to the most-venomous snakes in the world, that number is 2. Just two. . . . Snakebites have a treatment: antivenom. But it might surprise you to learn that antivenom still comes from a method that hasn’t changed much in over a hundred years.”