rabies- an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain lyssa,madness,hydrophobia zoonosis,zoonotic disease- an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans ...
Rabies is endemic in Nigeria with clinical cases reported mainly in dogs and occasionally in livestock from all the geo-ecological zones of the country. Detection of rabies virus antigen in puppies at the age of five to ten weeks and in apparently healthy dogs shedding the virus in their saliv...
The number of rabies cases in China is becoming smaller and smaller. An expert said the number of human rabies every year in the country is falling. Compared with the largest number in 2007, the number of rabies cases in 2021 fell by 95 percent. Rabies can be prevented easily by vaccinati...
Prevention and control of this fatal disease require a sensitive surveillance system to follow suspected animal and human rabies cases thoroughly through the improved reporting system, which contains the history of exposure, clinical examinations, symptoms, and laboratory results. Rapid and accurate ...
Africa records about 24,000 human deaths each year (Talbi et al., 2009), and no African country is free of rabies (Nel, 2013). Canine rabies is responsible for the majority of human cases in Africa (Talbi et al., 2009). View chapterExplore book ...
Yin Wenwu, an infectious disease expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the annual number of reported cases of human rabies in the country has been dropping since 2007. Last year, 202 infections were reported throughout China. ...
Although rabies has been enzootic or epizootic in domestic or wild animals in the United States during most of the twentieth century, the disease has never been a serious problem among people in this country. During the first half of the century, only about 50 cases of human rabies—most ...
In-country genome sequencing of rabies viruses from human rabies cases on the African continent has so far only been carried out in South Africa [3, 17,18,19], however partial genome sequences are available from one human rabies case from Senegal [20] and one human rabies case from ...
Table 1 United Kingdom cases of rabies 2001-2012. Yr Virus Source Country of origin Findings of tests to detect neutralizing antibody in cerebrospinal fluid Ref. 2001 RABV Dog Nigeria Not tested [75] 2001 RABV Dog Philippines None detected on hospital admission [76] 2002 EBLV-21 Bat Britain...
However, cases of rabies in the dog (Canis familiaris) are regularly reported. In contrast to Northern Europe, the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) does not appear to be a vector in the south. This study summarises the current rabies situation in Southeast Europe and demonstrates the ...