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Thursday 02 December 2010
Rabies re-emerges in south Bhutan
Viral disease spread through road network by stray dogs
More than 670 people living in south-west Bhutan became exposed to the rabies virus after the disease spread through the local dog population in 2008, medical scientists report this month in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
?From January through July 2008, rabies reemerged in the Chhukha district of southwestern Bhutan,? write Tenzin, from the University of Sydney, and colleagues. ?The outbreak spread from south to north and seemed to follow the road network and town areas that had many free-roaming dogs.?
Rabies cases crop up from time to time in animals and people living in Bhutan, but only in the southern subdistricts of the country that border India. Each year, India reports on average 20,000 of the 55,000 human rabies deaths that occur in Africa and Asia. The last human case of rabies in Bhutan occurred in 2006, according to national health authorities...
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Reference and link
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Tenzin, Sharma B, Dhand NK, Timsina N, Ward MP. Reemergence of rabies in Chhukha district, Bhutan, 2008. Emerg Infect Dis 2010. doi:10.3201/eid1612.100958
World Health Organization information about rabies
Thursday 02 December 2010
Rabies re-emerges in south Bhutan
Viral disease spread through road network by stray dogs
More than 670 people living in south-west Bhutan became exposed to the rabies virus after the disease spread through the local dog population in 2008, medical scientists report this month in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
?From January through July 2008, rabies reemerged in the Chhukha district of southwestern Bhutan,? write Tenzin, from the University of Sydney, and colleagues. ?The outbreak spread from south to north and seemed to follow the road network and town areas that had many free-roaming dogs.?
Rabies cases crop up from time to time in animals and people living in Bhutan, but only in the southern subdistricts of the country that border India. Each year, India reports on average 20,000 of the 55,000 human rabies deaths that occur in Africa and Asia. The last human case of rabies in Bhutan occurred in 2006, according to national health authorities...
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Reference and link
1.
Tenzin, Sharma B, Dhand NK, Timsina N, Ward MP. Reemergence of rabies in Chhukha district, Bhutan, 2008. Emerg Infect Dis 2010. doi:10.3201/eid1612.100958
World Health Organization information about rabies