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Rabies
New rabies data have been reported by R.L. Hu and co-authors
January 14th, 2009
"Human rabies in China continues to increase exponentially, largely due to all inadequate veterinary infrastructure and poor vaccine coverage of naive dogs. We performed an epidemiological survey of rabies both in humans and animals, examined vaccine duality for animal use, evaluated the vaccination coverage in dogs, and checked the dog samples for the presence of rabies virus," investigators in Changchun, People's Republic of China report. "The lack of surveillance in dog rabies, together with the low immunization coverage (up to 2.8 % in rural areas) and the high percentage of rabies virus prevalence (up to 6.4%) in dogs. suggests that the dog population is a...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-01-14)
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