Livestock rabies in Pará state, Brazil: a descriptive study (2004 to 2013)

Andrade, Elane A.; Monteiro, Francisco D. O; Solorio, Mónica Romero; Raia, Vanessa A.; Xavier, Diego de Arruda; Colino, Elvira; Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e; Abel, Ísis

doi:10.1590/1678-5150-pvb-6307

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“…Respondents reported that attacks by bats have been occurring for a long time in these areas and have never resulted in death. Indeed, no deaths from rabies have been reported in the study region and no reported cases of neurological syndromes have occurred in livestock between 2004 and 2013 (Andrade et al, 2020).…”

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Assessment of crab fishermen's exposure to rabies virus in a typical Amazonian community

Silva

Andrade

Cardoso³

et al. 2021

Zoonoses and Public Health

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Outbreaks of human rabies transmitted by hematophagous bats occurred in 2018 in Pará state, Brazil, eastern Amazon, after 12 years of no record of the disease. Thus, it is necessary to understand the epidemiological characteristics of these attacks to protect the local population. This study aimed to characterize the bat bite populations in the municipality of São João da Ponta, Pará State, Brazil, in 2013-2015. The Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) database was used to identify the five individuals who sought medical care during the study period (seeds).Other individuals who were attacked during the same period but did not seek medical care (n = 61) were reached by snowball sampling, and a descriptive analysis was performed based on information obtained from questionnaires. Majority of the interviewees were men (92.4%; 61/66) and adults aged 20-50 years (69.9%; 46/66) and had <4 years of formal school education (86.3%; 57/66). Additionally, most of them were rural residents (92.4%; 61/66) and crab fishermen (79.3%; 53/66). The interviewees (92.4%; 61/66) identified mangroves of the Mãe Grande de Curuçá extractive reserve, where groups of fishermen sometimes gather for several days for crab fishing, often living in improvised dwellings without walls and covered by tarps or straw (88.8%; 56/66), conducive to attacks by vampire bats. Overall, 42.4% (28/66) of the participants had been bitten more than four times throughout their life. The median number of attacks over the participant's lifetime was 3.11 (range, 1-23). Participants were unaware of the risk of contracting rabies from the bite (95.4%; 65/66). These results suggest that vampire bat attacks are essentially an occupational hazard in the study region. Moreover, for each reported attack, there were at least 12.2 unreported cases. Thus, the study highlights the need to develop strategies for prophylactic treatment of this population.

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Assessment of crab fishermen's exposure to rabies virus in a typical Amazonian community

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Andrade

Cardoso³

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“…Subsequently, in the context of the national activities, it should be led to enhance surveillance, including active searches for foci, and sentinel surveillance and more education for the population and the academic sector, mainly oriented to farmers and producers. Unfortunately, in Ecuador lacks to conduct studies like in other countries such as Colombia (Contreras, 2017;Bonilla-Aldana et al, 2022) and Brazil (Andrade et al, 2020;Rocha et al, 2017;Heinemann et al, 2002). Therefore, the epidemiological situation of bovine rabies in the Ecuador is not well understanding.…”

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Bovine rabies cases in Ecuador: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study (2007 to 2020)

Maldonado-Arias,

Guamán-Rivera,

Mira-Naranjo

et al. 2024

Braz. J. Biol.

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The hematophagous bats are usually the main reservoir of sylvatic rabies, being one of the most important viral zoonoses affecting humans and livestock in Latin America. Despite the most countries have already studied spatio-temporal distribution of bovine rabies, however, in Ecuador, little has been reported about the state of rabies in the country. Aiming to this objective, a descriptive observational study was realized from 2007 to 2020 based on the formal reports by WAHI-OIE and surveillance of bovine rabies retrieved from its official website. During the study period in Ecuador, some 895 cases of rabies were confirmed in cattle. In addition, in the total of bovine rabies cases seen in Andean and Coast regions (185 effected bovines), Loja and Esmeraldas had 95 (6.16% cases per 10,000 animals) and 51 (1.7% cases per 10,000 animals), respectively. Furthermore, the Amazon region indicated higher rabies cases in cattle than to the observed in other regions (710 rabies cases) while it was highly fluctuating with respect to the years (9.74 to 42.82% cases per 10,000 animals). However, Zamora (292 rabies cases), Orellana (115 rabies cases) and Sucumbíos (113 rabies cases) yielded the highest incidence rates than other provinces (9 to 42% cases per 10,000 animals). Based on this evidence, it has been fundamental to assess the current national program for preventing and control of the sylvatic rabies, being also necessary to include concept of the ecology of the vampire bat. Regardless of these results, vaccination is vital for control programs to prevent rabies in livestock and need to be widely increased for limiting their geographic and temporal spread.

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“…Rabies occurrence in livestock animals is frequently reported, with cattle being the most affected among the livestock species [ 9 ]. This disease is considered an important cause of economic loss for cattle farmers [ 10 ]. Additionally, the importance of this disease in equines has recently been on the rise in Brazil [ 11 ].…”

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Epidemiology and Control of Rabies in Cattle and Equines in Rondônia State, a Brazilian’s Legal Amazon Area

Sodré,

Rossi,

Mathias

et al. 2023

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Rabies is a fatal neglected tropical zoonosis, and its significance for domestic herbivores in the rural cycle is probably associated with rainforest deforestation, livestock, and agricultural expansion. This epidemiological survey aimed to study the occurrence of rabies in bovines and equines in the state of Rondônia, located in the Brazilian’s Legal Amazon, between the years 2002 and 2021, correlating these findings with the prophylactic strategies adopted by the local sanitary agency for rabies control. During this period, 201 cases were observed in bovines and 23 in equines. A downward trend in rabies incidence was observed for both domestic herbivores. Rabies did not show a higher occurrence in any specific time of the year, and epidemic periods varied during some years for bovines and equines. Using the Generalized estimating equations (GEE) method, a multiple model approach was obtained with the explanatory variables significantly associated with the decrease in rabies incidence in cattle and horses during the study period: the ratio of treated bats and ratio of vaccine doses sold. Furthermore, the ratio of printed educative material was positively associated with rabies incidence. Despite a decreasing trend in rabies occurrences in this Amazon rainforest area, likely due to the actions taken by the animal sanitary agency, rabies remains endemic and requires monitoring, as well as prophylactic strategies to control this disease.

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Livestock rabies in Pará state, Brazil: a descriptive study (2004 to 2013)

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Assessment of crab fishermen's exposure to rabies virus in a typical Amazonian community

Assessment of crab fishermen's exposure to rabies virus in a typical Amazonian community

Bovine rabies cases in Ecuador: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study (2007 to 2020)

Epidemiology and Control of Rabies in Cattle and Equines in Rondônia State, a Brazilian’s Legal Amazon Area

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