Epidemiological profile of snakebites cases recorded at the 3rd military hospital laayoune morocco between 2011 and 2017

The analysis of hospitalized patients' records has allowed us to study the following variables: * Patient data: age, sex, underlying pathologies. * The circumstances of occurrence of the bite: the delay of treatment, the place of the bite and the period of the attack according to the climatic conditions of the region. According to Audebert [4], grade 0 corresponds to a white bite; grades 1, 2 and 3 correspond to a minor, moderate and severe envenomation, respectively. * The therapeutic care/treatment and the length of stay in the hospital. The majority of epidemiological studies report a high snake bite number in spring and summer [3, 5-7] resulting not only from higher activity of snakes and humans, but also from variations in climatic conditions: temperatures, relative humidity, and wind speed. The rise of the wind speed is a predominant criterion in the number of snake attack, there is a statistically significant correlation (p = 0.017); when the speed increases, the lifting of the sand grains and their transport becomes very easy to trigger a high movement and thus a hectic movement of snakes.