"Current Issues in Rabies Prevention in the United States: Health Dilemmas, Public Coffers, Private Interests."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Public Health Reports, "Over the last 100 years, rabies in the United States has changed dramatically More than 90% of all animal rabies cases reported annually to the CDC now occur in wildlife, whereas before 1960 the majority were in domestic animals. The principal rabies hosts today are wild carnivores and bats infected with several viral variants. Annual human deaths have fallen from more than a hundred at the turn of the century to one to two per year despite major outbreaks of animal rabies in several geographic areas. Modern day prophylaxis has proven nearly 100% successful; most human fatalities now occur in people...

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