A retrospective study of rabies in humans in Zimbabwe, between 1992 and 2003

Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 1983–2007

“…The latter observations are in agreement with other studies of human rabies in not only developing countries (e.g. Pfukenyi et al, 2007), but also the developed world (e.g. Noah et al, 1998).…”

“…In addition, very little wildlife involvement has been reported despite the established cycles of rabies in various wildlife species in the region. This observation was also made in a similar study of human rabies in Zimbabwe where similar urban and sylvatic cycles of rabies exist (Pfukenyi et al, 2007). Over the entire study period, only four cases reported exposure to rabid mongooses, with the virus genome sequences conforming to the mongoose variant, despite the known prevalence of rabies in these animals.…”

“…While dogs remain the major vector of human rabies in the RSA, only a few cases reported exposures to domestic cats, as cats are incidental victims of rabies and due to behavioural characteristics do not support independent rabies cycles (Pfukenyi et al, 2007;Lackay et al, 2008). In addition, very little wildlife involvement has been reported despite the established cycles of rabies in various wildlife species in the region.…”

Human rabies: a descriptive observation of 21 children in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo

“…Dogs have the main role in the transmission of the disease to humans as found in developing countries. 9,10,12,[21][22][23][24] Exposure in 19 cases (90.5%) was by stray dogs; similar to the situation reported in Ivory Coast.…”

A retrospective study of wildlife rabies in Zimbabwe, between 1992 and 2003

“…Given the very high risk of jackals being positive, high jackal potential zoonotic threat Pfukenyi et al 2007), high jackal rabies cases in commercial areas and recent human demography characterized by migration of families and their pets into commercial farming areas, future dog and human rabies outbreaks in commercial farming areas are inevitable. Since the canid rabies virus biotype is well adapted to both jackals and dogs (Bishop et al 2002;Sabeta et al 2003), there is also a constant danger of spillover of jackal rabies to dogs and vice-versa.…”