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Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020

INTRODUCTION: Rabies is a fatal zoonotic infectious disease that poses a serious threat to public health in China. Since 2005, a National Animal Rabies Surveillance System has been operating to understand the rabies situation in animals in China with a view to control and eventually eliminate dog-me...

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Autores principales: Feng, Ye, Ma, Jihong, Sun, Sheng, Chi, Lijuan, Kou, Zhanying, Tu, Changchun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34594998
http://dx.doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.202
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author Feng, Ye
Ma, Jihong
Sun, Sheng
Chi, Lijuan
Kou, Zhanying
Tu, Changchun
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Ma, Jihong
Sun, Sheng
Chi, Lijuan
Kou, Zhanying
Tu, Changchun
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description INTRODUCTION: Rabies is a fatal zoonotic infectious disease that poses a serious threat to public health in China. Since 2005, a National Animal Rabies Surveillance System has been operating to understand the rabies situation in animals in China with a view to control and eventually eliminate dog-mediated human rabies. METHODS: From 2010, the brain tissues of dogs, livestock, and wild animals showing rabies-like clinical signs were collected and tested by the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Animal Rabies to analyze the epidemiological characteristics of rabies, including animal species, geographic distribution, and transmission sources. Over the same period, clinically suspected animal rabies cases were collected by Animal Disease Control Centers through the National Animal Disease Monitoring Information Platform (NADMIP) and then reported in the Veterinary Bulletin. RESULTS: During 2010–2020, 170 of 212 suspected animal rabies cases were submitted to and confirmed by NRL as rabies virus-positive. Of these confirmed cases dogs, especially free-roaming and ownerless dogs in rural areas, were major transmission hosts (71/170). A total of 51 infected dogs attacked humans with 45 biting more than one person. The dog cases were reported all year round, but with significantly more in spring and summer. The majority of livestock rabies cases (70/80) being caused by rabid wild foxes in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia revealed that foxes play a pivotal role in animal rabies epizootics in the north and northwest of the country. CONCLUSION: Dogs were the main transmission sources of rabies in China, and along with the recent increase of rabies in foxes and other wildlife, presented an increasing threat to livestock and public health.
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spelling pubmed-84770532021-09-29 Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020 Feng, Ye Ma, Jihong Sun, Sheng Chi, Lijuan Kou, Zhanying Tu, Changchun China CDC Wkly Vital Surveillances INTRODUCTION: Rabies is a fatal zoonotic infectious disease that poses a serious threat to public health in China. Since 2005, a National Animal Rabies Surveillance System has been operating to understand the rabies situation in animals in China with a view to control and eventually eliminate dog-mediated human rabies. METHODS: From 2010, the brain tissues of dogs, livestock, and wild animals showing rabies-like clinical signs were collected and tested by the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Animal Rabies to analyze the epidemiological characteristics of rabies, including animal species, geographic distribution, and transmission sources. Over the same period, clinically suspected animal rabies cases were collected by Animal Disease Control Centers through the National Animal Disease Monitoring Information Platform (NADMIP) and then reported in the Veterinary Bulletin. RESULTS: During 2010–2020, 170 of 212 suspected animal rabies cases were submitted to and confirmed by NRL as rabies virus-positive. Of these confirmed cases dogs, especially free-roaming and ownerless dogs in rural areas, were major transmission hosts (71/170). A total of 51 infected dogs attacked humans with 45 biting more than one person. The dog cases were reported all year round, but with significantly more in spring and summer. The majority of livestock rabies cases (70/80) being caused by rabid wild foxes in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia revealed that foxes play a pivotal role in animal rabies epizootics in the north and northwest of the country. CONCLUSION: Dogs were the main transmission sources of rabies in China, and along with the recent increase of rabies in foxes and other wildlife, presented an increasing threat to livestock and public health. Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8477053/ /pubmed/34594998 http://dx.doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.202 Text en Copyright and License information: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
spellingShingle Vital Surveillances
Feng, Ye
Ma, Jihong
Sun, Sheng
Chi, Lijuan
Kou, Zhanying
Tu, Changchun
Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020
title Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020
title_full Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020
title_fullStr Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020
title_short Epidemiology of Animal Rabies — China, 2010–2020
title_sort epidemiology of animal rabies — china, 2010–2020
topic Vital Surveillances
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34594998
http://dx.doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.202
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