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Isolated cases of rabies involving illegally smuggled pets from Africa, as well as infected animals crossing the German and French borders, do occur. [98] However, in 2024, a case of rabies was detected in a cat in the Netherlands, with laboratory tests finding the cat had been infected with the European bat lyssavirus 1 (EBLV-1). [99]
A 2018 Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center literature review covering fifteen years of dog bites treated at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Virginia Health System, with meta-analysis by breed, found that dog bites were most likely to come from the following breeds (in order of highest incidents): pit bull, mixed breed, German Shepherd ...
Ernest Shalom Tierkel (July 2, 1917 – November 2, 1981) was an epidemiologist, whose lifelong work in implementing vaccine programs eliminated rabies as a major public health concern in the United States.
Rabies is a viral disease acquired from the bite or scratch of a rabid animal, and without a post-exposure vaccine series, virtually all cases are fatal, according to the Health Department.
Rabies causes about 59,000 deaths worldwide per year, [6] about 40% of which are in children under the age of 15. [16] More than 95% of human deaths from rabies occur in Africa and Asia. [1] Rabies is present in more than 150 countries and on all continents but Antarctica. [1] More than 3 billion people live in regions of the world where rabies ...
The state confirmed 12 bats had rabies in 2021, including one in Thurston County. In 2020, there were eight confirmed cases and none in Thurston County.
For instance the source shows zero deaths from rabies in Austrailia, but the map show one per million population. Summary Description Rabies world map-Deaths per million persons-WHO2012.svg
Rabies has a long history of association with dogs. The first written record of rabies is in the Codex of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC), which dictates that the owner of a dog showing symptoms of rabies should take preventive measure against bites. If a person was bitten by a rabid dog and later died, the owner was fined heavily.