title: [Analysis on the epidemiologic characteristics of human rabies in all the 31 provinces in China, from 1991 to 2005].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the epidemic intensity and trend of human rabies from 1991 to 2005 among 31 provinces, metropoli and municipalities in China so as to increase the awareness of the disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Contrastive analyses were performed and the annual publishing data by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The total number of reported cases was 14 942 from 1991 to 2005 with an annual average mortality rate as 0.080/100000. The increase of five-years mortality ratio on relative ratio with circular base of mortality rate were--66.24% (1996-2000 to 1991-1995) and 506.13% (2001-2005 to 1996-2000). When comparing incidence rates between 2000-2005 and 1991-1995, the relative ratio with fixed base increase became 104.62%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among the 31 provinces, metropolis and municipalities, 27 had reported human rabies cases. The enzootic areas mainly distributed in the drainage area along the Yangtze River. The incidence rates of Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Guangdong were the highest.
authors.affiliation: Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410005, China.
authors.forename: Shou-heng
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Fu-qiang
authors.initials: FQ
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011818:Rabies / Q000453:epidemiology*