Devendra, who was a farmer in India, still remembers the moment a snake sank its fangs into his leg while he was picking mulberry leaves. "I went to the hospital four days after I was bitten, when the pain became unbearable. But the delay cost me my leg," he says in a short film released by Global Snakebite Taskforce (GST), an initiative working to reduce deaths and injuries by snakebites. But Devendra is still among the lucky few to have survived. According to the federal government, around 50,