Post-exposure rabies prophylaxis is provided by the Health Department of Western Australia to persons exposed to potentially rabid animals overseas. In addition, since the discovery of Australian bat lyssavirus in 1996, rabies prophylaxis has been provided to persons exposed or likely to be exposed to Australian bats. This article reviews the provision of rabies prophylaxis in Western Australia...

BACKGROUND Rabies, a 100% fatal disease claims more than 59,000 human lives every year globally. One human life is lost every 15 minutes due to this deadly preventable disease. Timely initiation of post exposure prophylaxis following an animal exposure can result in 100% preventability of this fatal disease. METHODOLOGY This facility based study was conducted among clinical fraternities of te...

OBJECTIVE To review the safety and immunogenicity of pre-exposure rabies prophylaxis (including accelerated schedules, co-administration with other vaccines and booster doses), its cost-effectiveness and recommendations for use, particularly in high-risk settings. METHODS We searched the PubMed, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, Cochrane Library and Web of Science database...

A case of confirmed rabies in a French resident is a wake-up call for improved access to timely and adequate rabies post-exposure prophylaxis for all those living in Cambodia, as well as for improved pre-exposure prevention in travellers to Cambodia and other highly endemic settings.

OBJECTIVES This study aims to evaluate the features of rabies suspected animal contact cases in the emergency department and the appropriateness of administering post-exposure prophylaxis procedures according to World Health Organization (WHO) instructions. METHODS Rabies suspected animal contact cases that applied to the emergency department between August 2012 and December 2013 were include...

These recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) update the previous recommendations on human rabies prevention (CDC. Human rabies prevention--United States, 1999: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. MMWR 1999;48 [No. RR-1]) and reflect the status of rabies and antirabies biologics in the United States. This statement 1) provides ...

An Irkut virus (IRKV) was recently isolated from a bat in China. The protective ability of rabies biologics available in the Chinese market and experimental biologics against the rabies virus (RABV) and IRKV were assessed in a hamster model via preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) experiments. The results demonstrated that a single dose of rabies vaccine did not ind...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the data on human exposure to potential rabies virus transmitters in Olinda, State of Pernambuco, Brazil. Data from 7,062 patients who underwent antirabies prophylactic treatment in Olinda between 2002 and 2006 were analyzed. As expected, dogs and cats were involved in most of the cases; i.e. 82.3 and 16.3%, respectively. Attacks by nonhuman primates...

Sir, The recent report on ‘pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis for dog bites’ is very interesting.[1] Bertozzi et al. suggested that ‘monoclonal antibodies represent a promising alternative to traditionally used polyclonal products, and countries with chronic shortages of human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) and equine rabies immunoglobulin (ERIG) would benefit greatly from replacement of ...

Dear Editor, the recent report on “Rabies Suspected Animal Contact Cases” is very interesting.1 Dagar et al noted that “not onlywere there unnecessary vaccine and Ig applications, there were also missing prophylaxis procedures.1” In fact, the post exposure prophylaxis for rabies is very important and any patients have to be educated for the necessity of the prophylaxis. The first issue on unnec...