Human rabies encephalomyelitis.

Reduced Regiment for Human Pre-exposure Immunization Against Rabies

The main aim of this study was to find a suitable rabies vaccination protocol which would allow usage of lower volumes of vaccine, fewer clinical visits and above all, enough serological effectiveness for high-risk individuals requiring pre-exposure immunization. Human diploid cell rabies vaccine was administered intradermally and intramuscularly in 60 previously unvaccinated volunteers, aged 1...

Human Rabies in China

To the Editor: Rabies has occurred in China for >2,000 years and was first described in ≈556 BC (1). Since 1950, human rabies has been a class II noti-fiable disease in China, and the annual number and distribution of human rabies cases have been archived. We examined the archived data from 1950 to 2004 and analyzed epidemiologic characteristics. During the 55-year period, 108,412 human rabies ...

Human rabies in Israel.

Letters ene (TCE), a major ground water contaminant used in the dry cleaning industry and in degreasing solvents. The degree to which B. cepacia is being used in bioremediation products is unknown; however , the species has been used extensively to degrade ground water TCE contamination in at least one large U.S. city. A number of environment-friendly bioremediation products containing only nat...

A Survey of Human Rabies in Iran; 2000-2006

Human Rabies — South Carolina, 2011

On December 3, 2011, a South Carolina woman visited a local emergency department (ED) with an overnight history of shortness of breath, diaphoresis, chills, and intermittent paresthesia. The patient was transferred to a referral hospital, where she became comatose and developed multiorgan failure. The patient did not report a history of an animal bite. However, family members subsequently revea...