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RABIES

 Despite being 100% preventable, canine-mediated
rabies is one of the most important zoonosis.

 Rabies is estimated to cause up to 70,000 human
deaths per year mostly affecting people in rural
areas.

 It has important social costs due to human mortality
and high economic consequences due to the losses
in livestock and the cost of the implementation of
preventive and control measures in both animals and
human

RABIES TRANSMISSION

 Rabies virus can be transmitted between mammals,
whether they belong to the same or different species.
 Rabies virus is primarily transmitted through the saliva of
an infected animal.
 Saliva becomes infectious a few days prior to the onset of
clinical signs.
 Infection occurs primarily via bite wounds, or infected
saliva entering an open cut or wound or mucous
membrane, such as those in the mouth, nasal cavity or
eyes.
 Occasional, albeit rare, transmission by inhalation of
infected aerosol has been described.

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