Shimla: A brand new ebook launched by Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu lately has revealed that of the whole snake species discovered within the state, solely 30% are toxic. Every 12 months, an estimated 5,000 snake chew instances are reported within the state, leading to 100 deaths. State Institute of Health and Family Welfare principal Dr Omesh Kumar Bharti and Dr D D Bisht have compiled and edited the ebook, Snakes of Himachal Pradesh, that offers perception about totally different classes of snakes discovered within the hill state. Moreover, it has been revealed that Sirmaur district can also be home to the King Cobra, the longest venomous snake on the planet. Bharti is on the panel of World Health Organisation (WHO) for snakebite administration and is the National Principal Co-investigator of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) research on snakebite incidence within the nation, which includes 13 states throughout the nation, together with Himachal Pradesh. “In Himachal Pradesh, most of the snake bite cases are reported from lower and middle part of state. Chamba, Kangra, Una, Hamirpur, Mandi, Sirmaur and Bilaspur are most prone to snake incidents. A few years back, King Cobra was not found in Himachal Pradesh, but now it has been spotted in Girinagar area under Kollar forest area of Sirmaur district. In the past, King Cobra was sighted in Uttarakhand. Common Cobra, Common Krait, Coral Snake and Russel’s Viper are other venomous snakes found in the state,” Bharti mentioned. The ebook, compiled by Bharti and Bisht, incorporates the pictures of snakes at totally different places in Himachal Pradesh, which have been documented and recognized by a staff of researchers led by Dr Anita Malhotra, a molecular biologist from Bangor University within the United Kingdom, of which Dr Bharti was an element. The staff caught snakes within the jungles of Himachal Pradesh with the permission of the wildlife wing of the Himachal Pradesh Forest division and took their venom and DNA samples earlier than leaving them again within the habitat. The DNA and venom samples of snakes from Himachal have been examined within the laboratory in Tezpur University, Assam, with the assistance of Dr Archana Deka from division of molecular biology.
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