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Rabies-preventive health program for mothers in maternal and child health centers: quasi experimental study.
J Health Popul Nutr
January 2025
Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
Background: Rabies spreads to people and animals via saliva, usually through bites, scratches, or direct contact with mucosa (e.g. eyes, mouth, or open wounds).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies knowledge and prevention practices in Gombe state, Nigeria: a community-based comparative cross-sectional study of rabies hotspot and non-hotspot areas.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Sydani Institute for Research and Innovation, Sydani Group, Abuja, Nigeria.
Background: Rabies remains a significant public health concern in Nigeria, particularly in rural areas with limited awareness and resources. Gombe State is recognized as a rabies hotspot, facing challenges in controlling the spread of the disease. This study aimed to assess and compare the knowledge and prevention practices related to rabies among community members in hotspot and non-hotspot areas of Gombe State.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies transmitted from vampires to cattle: An overview.
PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America.
Rabies is a zoonotic infectious disease of global distribution that impacts human and animal health. In rural Latin America, rabies negatively impacts food security and the economy due to losses in livestock production. The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is the main reservoir and transmitter of rabies virus (RABV) to domestic animals in Latin America.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMolecular epidemiology, evolution, and transmission dynamics of raccoon rabies virus in Connecticut.
Virus Evol
December 2024
Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, 120 Green St., Athens, GA 30602, United States.
In North America, raccoon rabies virus (RRV) is a public health concern due to its potential for rapid spread, maintenance in wildlife, and impact on human and domesticated animal health. RRV is an endemic zoonotic pathogen throughout the eastern USA. In 1991, an outbreak of RRV in Fairfield County, Connecticut, spread through the state and eventually throughout the Northeast and into Canada.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies in rural northeast India: A case report emphasising the urgency of the One Health approach.
One Health
December 2024
Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Dog-mediated rabies is endemic in India. The country records the highest mortality due to dog-bite-related rabies despite the availability of interventions to prevent deaths. We present a case study of the death of a 59-year-old man in a suburban town of Northeast India after a dog bite from an owned pup.
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