Risk for Rabies Importation from North Africa

Risk for Rabies Importation from North Africa

A retrospective study conducted in France indicated that a large proportion of patients injured by potentially rabid animals while in North Africa did not seek pretravel advice, and some had not received proper rabies postexposure prophylaxis while in North Africa. As a result, imported human rabies cases are still being reported, and the need for postexposure prophylaxis after exposure in Nort...

Perspective Risk for Rabies Importation

Rabies in South Africa

This report, covering the two year period 1997 to 1998, is an update of previous reports published in the Proceedings of SEARG meetings which took place in Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. The overall rabies situation in South Africa has changed very little and the disease remains endemic throughout the country. Four major vectors have been identified, namely the domestic dog, the yell...

Rabies in southern Africa.

The first confirmed outbreak of rabies in Africa, believed to have followed the importation of an infected dog from England in 1892, occurred in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and was brought under control in 1894. An unconfirmed epidemic of rabies in dogs occurred in western Zambia in 1901. By the following year the disease had apparently spread along a major trade route, to cause ...

Discrepancies in Data Reporting for Rabies, Africa

Human rabies is an ancient disease but in modern times has primarily been associated with dog rabies-endemic countries of Asia and Africa. From an African perspective, the inevitable and tragic consequences of rabies require serious reflection of the factors that continue to drive its neglect. Established as a major disease only after multiple introductions during the colonial era, rabies conti...