Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
CME ACTIVITY
Risk for Rabies Importation from North Africa
Philippe Gautret
, Florence Ribadeau-Dumas, Philippe Parola, Philippe Brouqui, and Hervé Bourhy
, Florence Ribadeau-Dumas, Philippe Parola, Philippe Brouqui, and Hervé BourhyTable 5
Reasons for travel among 90 patients injured in North Africa and consulting an antirabies medical center, Marseille, France, 2004–2010
| Reason for travel | Place of exposure, no. (%) patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | Morocco | Tunisia | Egypt | Total | |
| Tourism | 10 (27.8) | 24 (72.7) | 17 (89.6) | 2 (100) | 53 (58.9) |
| Visit with friends and relatives | 26 (72.2) | 8 (24.3) | 1 (5.2) | 0 | 35 (38.9) |
| Business | 0 | 1 (3.0) | 1 (5.2) | 0 | 2 (2.2) |
| Total | 36 | 33 | 19 | 2 | 90 |
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