INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Two siblings , a three-year-old boy and seven-year-old girl have been killed after a snake bit them while they were sleeping
outside their house.According to a private news channel, the people in their area said that they had spotted two poisonous snakes in the
fields after heavy monsoon rains.The snakebite remains a significant problem of rural areas.Every year around 50,000 people die in Pakistan
due to snake-bite.Only five to six per cent anti-venom vaccine is prepared by the National Institute of Health (NIH) against the required
150,000 vaccines per annum and that too is not easily available in the markets.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the
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