Global burden of rabies in 204 countries and territories, from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Gan, Hui; Hou, Xiangqing; Wang, Yiming; Xu, Guohai; Huang, Zhifeng; Zhang, Teng; Lin, Runpei; Xue, Mingshan; Hu, Haisheng; Liu, Mingtao; Cheng, Zhangkai J.; Sun, Baoqing; Zhu, Zheng

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2022.10.046

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“…Rabies is the foremost lethal infectious zoonotic disease, with a 100% mortality rate in humans [1], and although the global disease burden of rabies has declined over the past 30 years, the number of global deaths from rabies in 2019 was still as high as 13,743 [2], especially in some developing countries and regions in Africa and Asia, accounting for 95% of all rabies cases, and the threat of rabies remains [3]. The World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control launched a global call in 2015 to eliminate human deaths due to rabies by 2030 [4, 5].…”

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Rabies vaccination adherence and associated factors among rabies-exposed patients in Shenzhen, China: a hospital-based cross-sectional study

Lu,

Lin,

Zhou

et al. 2024

Epidemiol. Infect.

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Adherence to post-exposure prophylaxis and post-exposure vaccination (PEV) is an important measure to prevent rabies. The purpose of this study was to explore the adherence to the vaccination protocol and its influencing factors among rabies-exposed patients in Shenzhen, China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a tertiary hospital in Shenzhen, China, to obtain epidemiological characteristics of patients; knowledge, attitude, and practice scores of rabies prevention; and medical records. A total of 326 patients requiring full rabies PEV were included in this study, and only 62% (202) completed the full course of vaccination according to the norms of the vaccination guidelines. After multifactor logistic regression, the factors influencing adherence to vaccination were as follows: age 31 to 40 years, time spent to reach the nearest rabies prevention clinic was >60 min, the time of injury was at night to early morning, the place of injury was a school/laboratory, the animal causing injury was a cat, the health status of the animal causing injury could not be determined, and patients with higher practice scores (all p<0.05). Understanding the factors influencing rabies vaccination adherence among rabiesexposed patients in urban areas of China and promote changes in patients' practice toward rabies prevention is essential for rabies elimination by 2030.

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Rabies vaccination adherence and associated factors among rabies-exposed patients in Shenzhen, China: a hospital-based cross-sectional study

Lu,

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Zhou

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Epidemiol. Infect.

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“…Ethiopia ranks fourth on the globe and has the second-highest number of rabies mortality rates on the African continent, after Nigeria [11]. The disease has been ranked first among the top five zoonotic diseases (rabies, anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, and echinococcosis) in Ethiopia by a panel of experts from human, animal, and environmental health [12, 13].…”

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Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice of respondents’ towards Rabies and associated risk factors in Shone Town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Beresa,

Beriso

2023

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A survey-based cross-sectional study was carried out in the community of Shone Town, Hadiya Zone, South Region of Ethiopia, from November 2022 to April 2023 to assess respondents' knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding rabies and associated factors. Woreda was selected purposefully, while kebeles and study populations were selected by simple random sampling. A total of 416 respondents were randomly selected and interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. All respondents (100%) heard about rabies from different sources, with the majority of them hearing about it from informal sources (62%), followed by mixed (mass media and traditional ways). 31.7% of those surveyed were aware that a virus was the cause of rabies. The findings revealed that 51.9% of individuals were aware of saliva contact, 0.7% were aware of rabid animal bites, and 47.4% were aware of both modes of transmission. With regard to the 100% fatal nature of rabies once the clinical signs developed, 64.4% of participants knew and the rest, 35.6%, did not. In terms of washing dog bite wounds with soap and water, the majority (86.3%) of respondents were aware. Of all participants, 73.1% agreed that stray dogs are dangerous, and 78.4% agreed that rabies is a problem for the community. With regard to the idea of killing stray dogs for the purpose of rabies prevention, 51.4% of respondents agreed that it was an effective method. 72.6% of respondents had contact with pets; however, 32% washed their hands after touching the pet animals. More than half of respondents practiced killing to control stray dogs. 36.8% of interviewees were experienced in vaccinating their dogs. In comparing the associations of several demographic risk factors with the mode of transmission and the risk of not vaccinating dogs, it was discovered that sex, age, occupations, and family size were statistically significant with both the risk of not vaccinating dogs and the means of transmission (P<0.05). The study demonstrates that a lack of formal education programs in the communities, low levels of education, and the majority of respondents acquiring their knowledge from unofficial sources were important contributors to the low levels of awareness among communities. The community should have been made aware of rabies through regular education, which should have been planned by veterinarians and medical professionals.

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“…Given the reported high burden of morbidity and mortality associated with rabies in India [ 2 , 3 , 4 ], rigorous assessments of public health interventions to reduce disease burden in especially vulnerable populations are much needed and are welcome.…”

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“…For instance, an oft-cited WHO-sponsored multi-centric survey from 2003 reports ~20 deaths per million per annum from rabies across all age groups within India [ 2 ]; the Indian Govt. recorded fewer than 1 death per million in 2019 [ 5 ]; and a recent study based on data from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2019 survey estimated ~4 deaths per million [ 4 ]. In stark contrast, the model developed by Royal et al predicted that their favored PrEP regimen (pre-exposure prophylaxis plus post-exposure prophylaxis, per the WHO guidelines) would result in 273 deaths per million of the population (see Table 3, in [ 1 ]).…”

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Is Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis a Cost-Effective Intervention to Avert Rabies Deaths among School-Aged Children in India? Comment on Royal et al. A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to Avert Rabies Deaths in School-Aged Children in India. Vaccines 2023, 11, 88

Kapur

2023

Vaccines

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Global burden of rabies in 204 countries and territories, from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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References 34 publications

Rabies vaccination adherence and associated factors among rabies-exposed patients in Shenzhen, China: a hospital-based cross-sectional study

Rabies vaccination adherence and associated factors among rabies-exposed patients in Shenzhen, China: a hospital-based cross-sectional study

Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice of respondents’ towards Rabies and associated risk factors in Shone Town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Is Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis a Cost-Effective Intervention to Avert Rabies Deaths among School-Aged Children in India? Comment on Royal et al. A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to Avert Rabies Deaths in School-Aged Children in India. Vaccines 2023, 11, 88

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