Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?

Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?

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 persons. 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 bit...

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Main Authors: Xiomara Badilla, Victor Pérez-Herra, Ligia Quirós, Ana Morice, Edwin Jiménez, Elizabeth Sáenz, Fernando Salazar, Rodrigo Fernández, Lillian Orciari, Pamela Yager, Sylvia Whitfield, Charles E. Rupprecht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
bat
Costa Rica
dispatch
human rabies
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/6/02-0632_article

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