title: Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2013.
abstract: During 2013, 53 reporting jurisdictions reported 5,865 rabid animals and 3 human rabies cases to the CDC, representing a 4.8% decrease from the 6,162 rabid animals and 1 human case reported in 2012. Ninety-two percent of reported rabid animals were wildlife. Relative contributions by the major animal groups were as follows: 1,898 raccoons (32.4%), 1,598 bats (27.2%), 1,447 skunks (24.7%), 344 foxes (5.9%), 247 cats (4.2%), 86 cattle (1.5%), and 89 dogs (1.5%). One human case was reported from Maryland. The infection was determined to have been transmitted via organ transplantation. Infection in the organ donor, a North Carolina resident, was retrospectively diagnosed. Both the organ donor and the organ recipient were infected with the raccoon rabies virus variant. The third human case, reported by Texas, involved a Guatemalan resident who was detained while crossing the US border. The infection was determined to be caused by a canine rabies virus variant that circulates in Central America.
authors.affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333.
authors.forename: Jessie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Dyer
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yager
authors.forename: Lillian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orciari
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: Cathleen A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Hanlon
authors.forename: Jesse D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Blanton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D002415:Cats; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D002685:Chiroptera; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D004285:Dogs; D018397:Equidae / Q000821:virology; D005589:Foxes; D006801:Humans; D012889:Mephitidae; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011818:Rabies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011821:Raccoons; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance / Q000662:veterinary; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D015047:Zoonoses
chemical_list: D011819:Rabies Vaccines