Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Badilla, Xiomara ; Pérez-Herra, Victor ; Quirós, Ligia ; Morice, Ana ; Jiménez, Edwin ; Sáenz, Elizabeth ; Salazar, Fernando ; Fernández, Rodrigo ; Orciari, Lillian ; Yager, Pamela ; Whitfield, Sylvia ; Rupprecht, Charles E.
• Description:
  Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in humans. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector.
• Subjects:
  Animals Bites And Stings Cats Cattle Child Chiroptera Communicable Diseases, Emerging Disease Outbreaks Dispatch Dogs Geography Humans Incidence Male Mice Rabies Rabies Virus Risk Factors Zoonoses

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 9(6):721-723.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Costa Rica
• Location:
  Central America
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6a5f606a31ec806b3fff91fed4a78d408f3d3a80823efc22d18d95bf15714207
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14140/cdc_14140_DS1.pdf
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