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Thank you! The cases aren't adjusted for underreporting unfortunately, so they're also not highly confident. But both of the death estimates are fairly confident.
There are about 500-600 people hospitalised for snakebites per year nationally (aihw.gov.au/getmedia/2a… & onlinelibrary.wiley.com…) and states like Queensland report about 800 …
Thank you! The cases aren't adjusted for underreporting unfortunately, so they're also not highly confident. But both of the death estimates are fairly confident.
There are about 500-600 people hospitalised for snakebites per year nationally (https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/2a017461-459d-43b2-b00e-4ddb0f1167e3/injcat110.pdf & https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imj.13297) and states like Queensland report about 800 ambulance calls for snakebites each year.
I think it's partly due to which species people more commonly come across, diagnostic kits to detect which species the bite is from, access to hospitals & the availability of antivenom, and that it's covered by national health insurance – there's a pop piece about it here (https://theconversation.com/7-reasons-australia-is-the-lucky-country-when-it-comes-to-snakes-175188).
(I've also included the death rate per 100,000 people in both countries in footnote 1)