Skin Specimen as an Alternative to Brain Tissue for Post Mortem Rabies Diagnosis in Animals to Scale up Animal Rabies Surveillance

Rabies in Lowlier Animals

There is no mention in the available literature on the subject, in English or French, of naturally-occurring rabies in tortoises. Street virus, however, has been injected into brains of turtles and proved by passage into rabbit brain to have persisted for months. In the brains of Testudo mauritanica and Clemmys leprosa (a fresh-water species) it persisted for 302 and 150 days, respectively (Rem...

Light microscopical diagnosis of rabies

Time to appreciate Avicenna’s knowledge of rabies

Animal bite epidemiology and surveillance for rabies postexposure prophylaxis.

OBJECTIVES To understand the epidemiology of animal bites and exposure, evaluate the animal exposure reporting system for surveillance of rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP), and identify opportunities to reduce PEP. DESIGN Period prevalence survey. STUDY POPULATION Pennsylvania residents in 1995. PROCEDURE Data from animal bite reports from Pennsylvania county health offices were summa...

14: Animal Bite Epidemiology and Surveillance for Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis, Iran

Background and aims: Animal bites are a significant threat to human health because of fatality of subsequent infections such as rabies. The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiology of animal bites during a five-year period in Shush County. Methods: In a descriptive cross sectional study, all cases of animal bites referred to the health centers in Shush County were investigated during...