Bat Rabies and Human Postexposure Prophylaxis, New York, USA
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To the Editor: The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) assessed the effect of terrestrial rabies on human postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) during the first 10-year period of computerized reporting (1993–2002) (1). We assessed the effect of bat rabies during the same period, when guidelines for PEP were changing (2). NYSDOH developed local health department and public education programs to reduce bat encounters, increase testing of bats involved in encounters, and improve reporting of bat encounters (3).
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دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011