Venomous snakebite is "the biggest public health crisis you've never heard of," said former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as he was working to get the issue onto the global health agenda in 2015.

Each year, roughly 140,000 people die from snakebite 'envenoming' (basically, when a venomous snake delivers venom into the body through a bite or spray). Another 2 to 3 million are bitten each year and survive but can face serious injury or long-term disability as a result.

In 2017, the World Health Organization recognized snakebite envenoming as a neglected tropical disease. "Since then, only limited progress has been made," said David Lalloo , vice chancellor of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

That's where the snake statues come in.

As part of an effort to put the dangers o

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