TY - JOUR AU - Nunan, Christopher P. AU - Tinline, Rowland R. AU - Honig, Janet M. AU - Ball, David G. A. AU - Hauschildt, Peggy AU - LeBer, Charles A. T1 - Postexposure Treatment and Animal Rabies, Ontario, 1958-2000 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2002 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 214 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Rabies KW - Ontario KW - public health KW - vaccination KW - rabies vaccine KW - treatment KW - Canada DO - 10.3201/eid0802.010177 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/2/01-0177_article ER - End of Reference