The death of a nine-year-old girl in Quebec in the fall of 2000 was the first case of human rabies in Canada since 1985. Public health officials eventually determined that the girl had been bitten while she was sleeping by a silver-haired bat that had gotten into the family's home. On...
The third and fourth reported cases of rabies transmission by corneal transplant are described [see also Abstracts on Hygiene, 1980, 55, abstr. 3136]; both patients, a 41.year-old housewife and a 25.year-old man, being admitted initially to the Siriraj hospital. Neither had any history of...
(redirected from Human Rabies Immune Globulin)Also found in: Acronyms. globulin [glob´u-lin] any of numerous proteins that are insoluble in water or highly concentrated salt solutions but soluble in moderately concentrated salt solutions. All plasma proteins except albumin and prealbumin are ...
Rabies poses a serious danger to travellers to Asia and Africa. Find out more about the rabies vaccine and how it protects humans against the rabies virus.
Woodruff BA, Jones JL, Eng TR (1991) Human exposure to rabies from pet wild raccoons in South-Carolina and West-Virginia, 1987 through 1988 . American Journal of Public Health 81 : 1328–1330Woodruff BA, Jones JL, Eng TR (1991) Human exposure to rabies from pet wild raccoons in South-...
Frequently, it is the scarcity of provisions for dogs that is responsible for the decline in their populations, in addition to epidemics of rabies and canine distemper virus (Degerbøl and Freuchen, 1935, Hjortlund, 1907, Strecker, 2018). The day-to-day practices, such as feeding, that ...
SummaryRabid free-ranging cats have been a public health concern in Pennsylvania since raccoon variant rabies first was recognized in the state in the early 1980s. Over the last decade, between 1.5 and 2.5% of cats submitted to Pennsylvania's state laboratories for rabies testing have been posit...
Human RabiesExamines incidences of rabies in the U.S. Increase in the prevalence of wild animal attacks; Advantage of quarantine of imported animals; Use of vaccination to combat the spread of disease.doi:doi:10.1177/000992287000901203Clinical Pediatrics...
The Minas Gerais State Health System is divided into 25 Regional Health Centers, which are linked to the State Health Department (SES-MG). These Health Centers were utilized in the study. The results of 2,845 records of laboratory diagnosis for canine, feline, and human rabies were analyzed....
Close to 15 million of PEP are administrated every year worldwide. The WHO estimates that PEP helps avoid 330,304 deaths per year in Asia and in Africa [1]. The prevention of human rabies, following exposure to an animal presumed infected, is based on an early and careful cleaning of ...