Postexposure treatment and animal rabies, Ontario, 1958-2000.
This paper investigates the relationship between animal rabies and postexposure treatment (PET) in Ontario by examining the introduction of human diploid cell vaccine (HDCV) in 1980 and the initiation of an oral rabies vaccination program for wildlife in 1989. Introducing HDCV led to an immediate doubling of treatments. Both animal rabies and human treatments declined rapidly after the vaccination program was introduced, but human treatments have leveled off at approximately 1,000 per year.
Nunan
Christopher P
CP
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Tinline
Rowland R
RR
Honig
Janet M
JM
Ball
David G A
DG
Hauschildt
Peggy
P
LeBer
Charles A
CA
D000818:Animals; D006078:Government Programs; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D011818:Rabies / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013997:Time Factors
D011819:Rabies Vaccines