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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 16, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedFrom January through July 2008, rabies reemerged in the Chhukha district of southwestern Bhutan. To clarify the distribution and direction of spread of this outbreak, we mapped reported cases and conducted directional...
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From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 82, Issue 8)Please note that the information below has been extracted from International travel and health 2007, which will be available by end of February 2007. Risk for travellers The risk to travellers in rabies-endemic...
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From:Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Shampur. Madhusudana, Suja. Sukumaran Human rabies still continues to be a significant health problem in India and other developing countries where dogs are the major vectors of transmission. Rabies in humans...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 308, Issue 6927) Peer-ReviewedProblems with canine carriers of the virus and the cost of safe, post-exposure prophylaxis Rabies kills more than 25 000 people each year in India,[1] where stray dogs are mainly responsible for transmission.[2]...
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From:Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Omesh. Bharti, Vivek. Sharma A 48-year-old male was bitten by a dog on the forehead and on the RIGHT side of left eyebrow on November 26, 2017, at 2 pm. The patient was immediately rushed to a nearby private...
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From:Consultant (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChanges in the 1991 guidelines issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for rabies prevention include the release of the 1997 formula of human rabies vaccine, updated recommendations for local...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 68, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMass immunization of animals against rabies is not readily accomplished in developing countries. Consequently, protection against human rabies in these countries is best provided by postexposure treatment. Studies in...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA genotype 2 lyssavirus, Lagos bat virus (LBV), was isolated from a terrestrial wildlife species (water mongoose) in August 2004 in the Durban area of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. The virus isolate was...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 31, Issue 9)ATLANTA -- Rabies prophylaxis should be initiated in people who come into contact with bats unless it can conclusively be determined that a bite did not occur, Dr. Gerald Mandell said at the annual meeting of the...
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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 35, Issue 12)Rabies is probably one of the most deadly diseases in the world, and is one of the oldest known zoonotic diseases (a disease that infects animals but can be transmitted to humans). Its name is Latin for madness or fury....
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 176, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRabies was a well known clinical condition in Great Britain in the early part of the 19th century. The 7th edition of Thomas' practice published in 1821 (1) has a 15-page section on hydrophobia, rabies or canine...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Canine rabies, and thus human exposure to rabies, can be controlled through mass vaccination of the animal reservoir if dog owners are willing to cooperate. Inaccessible, ownerless dogs, however, reduce the...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 94, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWorld Rabies Day is 28 September, 2016, (1) and is designed to raise awareness about the prevention and control of this neglected disease. Almost all human rabies are transmitted by domestic dog bites or scratches,...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA five-year project to prevent human deaths from rabies in Phetchabun Province, Thailand involved increasing accessibility of post-exposure treatment with the Thai Red Cross intradermal (2-2-2-0-1-1) regimen for humans...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo control the Arctic variant of rabies virus in red foxes, 332,257 bait doses containing live, attenuated Evelyn-Rokitnicki-Abelseth rabies vaccine were distributed in greater metropolitan Toronto during 1989-1999....
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 18, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIn 2009, an outbreak of raccoon rabies in Central Park in New York City, New York, USA, infected 133 raccoons. Five persons and 2 dogs were exposed but did not become infected. A trap-vaccinate-release program...
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From:Nature Medicine (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt was nearly 10 o'clock at night. Naseem Salahuddin, an infectious disease specialist at Indus Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, rushed in to work: nearly 20 people had been brought to the...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 36, Issue 8)Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Despite the first known survival of an unvaccinated rabies patient, prophylaxis still is the only proven defense after rabies exposure, Dr. L. Barry Seltz told physicians at a pediatric update...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 72, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedICP, a computer program for the analysis of data from routine rabies diagnoses and from follow-up investigations of oral rabies immunization of foxes, has been developed by the Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases...
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From:Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (Vol. 8, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alan C Jackson 1 Human rabies has been a problem since antiquity. Although rabies may be effectively prevented after a recognized exposure, medical management once the clinical disease develops has almost...