Citation

Pape WJ, Fitzsimmons TD, Hoffman RE. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 1999; 5(3): 433-437.

Affiliation

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10341181

PMCID

PMC2640787

Abstract

To assess the risk for rabies transmission to humans by bats, we analyzed the prevalence of rabies in bats that encountered humans from 1977 to 1996 and characterized the bat-human encounters. Rabies was diagnosed in 685 (15%) of 4,470 bats tested. The prevalence of rabies in bats that bit humans was 2.1 times higher than in bats that did not bite humans. At least a third of the encounters were preventable.

Language: en