Rabies: prevention and control

Cork Zoonoses Committee; Cork County Council; Cork Corporation; Southern Health Board (SHB)

dc.contributor.author	Cork Zoonoses Committee
dc.contributor.author	Cork County Council
dc.contributor.author	Cork Corporation
dc.contributor.author	Southern Health Board (SHB)
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-19T14:16:14Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-19T14:16:14Z
dc.date.issued	1996
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10147/266112
dc.description	Rabies is a typical zoonosis in that it is primarily a disease of animals which occasionally spills over into the human population. It occurs world-wide, with an estimated 35,000 - 40,000 human deaths annually, almost all in developing countries. Ireland is a "Rabies free area". A rabies free area may be defined as "one in which an effective import policy is implemented and, in the presence of adequate disease surveillance, no case of indigenously acquired rabies infection has been confirmed in humans or any animal species at any time during the previous two years" [WHO 1992] In the event of rabies being introduced to a country free of the disease, such as Ireland, transmission of the disease among a stray dog population or urban foxes would be a matter of serious public health concern as members of the human population would also be at risk. Possible threats to human health: Foreign travel Animal smuggling Lifting of trade barriers Migrating bats (unlikely). Rabies in animals occurs in all continents except Australasia and Antartica. Countries currently free of rabies in the animal population include Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Japan, Hawaii, Taiwan, Oceania, UK*, Ireland, Iceland, mainland Norway, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Greece and some of the West Indies and Atlantic Islands.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Southern Health Board (SHB)	en_GB
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	COMMUNICABLE DISEASE	en_GB
dc.subject	PUBLIC HEALTH	en_GB
dc.title	Rabies: prevention and control	en_GB
dc.type	Report	en
refterms.dateFOA	2018-08-23T20:01:44Z