causes an estimated 120,000 cases of bacterial meningitis and sepsis worldwide each year, including 3000 cases in the United States. Approximately one fifth of all cases occur among children under 1 year old. The case鈥揻atality rate is 10% to 15% and, among survivors, an additional 11% ...
Bat rabies causes the majority of human cases in the United States, and postexposure prophylaxis depends on the type of exposure and availability of the animal for rabies diagnosis. • Preexposure prophylaxis should be targeted to high-risk groups, including veterinarians, laboratory workers, and...
A majority of human rabies cases in the United States are either imported from countries where dog rabies is endemic or classified as cryptic human cases, where a route of exposure is not known. Notably, essentially all rabies virus (RV) variants associated with cryptic cases of human rabies ...
possible rabies exposures over the past three to four decades(Fekadu, Chandler, & Harrison, 1982; Fekadu, Shaddock, & Baer, 1982; National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians et al., 2016).Nohumanrabiescasesh...
Rabies in Your State An estimated 60,000 people receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis in the US every year. Most rabies exposures are due to animal bites. See state-by-state data on documented cases of animal rabies.4,6 Search Your State ...
cases reported in 2002, the number of cases reported in 2003 decreased among all reporting groups with the exception of cats, dogs, equids, and swine. Ten of the 19 states with enzootic rabies in raccoons, the District of Columbia, and New York City reported decreases in the numbers of ...
Children are frequently the victims of rabies. In the United States, indigenous cases of rabies in humans usually occur through transmission of rabies virus from wildlife vectors, and molecular characterization of the variants indicates that the majority of these cases originate from insect-eating bats...
In the United States, rabies is a rare disease, and it is safe to say that the great majority of US physicians, including those specializing in infectious diseases, have never seen a patient with rabies. There has been an average of two to three cases of...
Rabies (狂犬病) is causing problems along the East Coast of the United States.This year,the (54)n___ of rabies cases reported in New York,New Jersey,Florida,and Connecticut has gone up.Rabies is a disease in (55)a___.It is caused by a germ (细菌).When one animal bites another...
Bat rabies causes the majority of human cases in the United States, and postexposure prophylaxis depends on the type of exposure and availability of the animal for rabies diagnosis. • Preexposure prophylaxis should be targeted to high-risk groups, including veterinarians, laboratory workers, and...