A case series to describe twelve fatal patients cause by rabies disease in central coast region, Vietnam in 2008

Background Human rabies fatal cases were related to animal rabies but it is reported that often lacks of animal rabies data, human case is underreported and rabies immune globulin and vaccine are not available so that these contributed to raise the big issues for rabies control and prevention measures in the developing countries. Recently in central coast region of Viet Nam human rabies fatal cases trend to increase from 1.5 to 2 folds in 2006 and 2007. This study described the clinical manifestations and epidemiological characteristics, post-exposure prophylaxis; and explored the risk factors associate with rabies fatality among twelve patients in central coast region in 2008.