Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding rabies risk in community members and healthcare professionals: Pétionville,
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N. FENELON, P. DELY, M. A. KATZ, N. D. SCHAAD, A. DISMER, D. MORAN, F. LARAQUE AND R. M. WALLACE* Department of Epidemiology and Laboratory Research, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Reconstruction Team, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding rabies risk in community members and healthcare professionals: Pétionville, Haiti, 2013
Haiti has the highest human rabies burden in the Western Hemisphere. There is no published literature describing the public's perceptions of rabies in Haiti, information that is critical to developing effective interventions and government policies. We conducted a knowledge, attitudes and practices survey of 550 community members and 116 health professionals in Pétionville, Haiti in 2013 to und...
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