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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Gibbons, Robert V. ; Holman, Robert C. ; Mosberg, Stephen R. ; Rupprecht, Charles E.
Gibbons, Robert V. ; Holman, Robert C. ; Mosberg, Stephen R. ; Rupprecht, Charles E. Less -
Description:
We surveyed cavers who attended the National Speleological Society convention in June 2000. Fifteen percent of respondents did not consider a bat bite a risk for acquiring rabies; only 20% had received preexposure prophylaxis against the disease. An under-appreciation of the risk for rabies from bat bites may explain the preponderance of human rabies viruses caused by variant strains associated with bats in the United States.
Subject:
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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 And Over
Animals
Bias (Epidemiology)
Bites And Stings
Caves
Chiroptera
Dispatch
Environmental Exposure
Health Education
Humans
Middle Aged
Questionnaires
Rabies
Rabies Vaccines
Rabies Virus
Recreation
Risk Factors

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 8(5):532-534.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:d3c5fce303463985c1538fa5d9a0f9e08ecad05e8e7a3a83222030a7e4a1483c
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