Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
CME ACTIVITY - Perspective
Risk for Rabies Importation from North Africa
Table 1
Reported rabies cases in humans and animals, North Africa, 2000–2009*
Country | Annual no. human deaths/100,000 population | Annual no. rabies PEP in humans/100,000 population | No. rabies cases in animals (years) |
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Algeria | 0.06† | 2.2† | 2,206 (2000–2008), 754 (2009) |
Egypt | 0.1‡ | 1.9§ | 5 (2000, 2006, and 2007)¶ |
Morocco | 0.07† | 1.6† | 3,600 (2000–2008, including 343 in 2007) |
Sudan | 0.04† | 0.4‡ | 101 (2000–2007, including 38 in 2007) |
Tunisia | 0.02† | 3.3† | 1,253 (2000–2007, including 102 in 2007) |
*PEP, postexposure prophylaxis. Data sources include World Health Organization RabNet database (www.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp) and RABMEDCONTROL (www.rabmedcontrol.org) (5,9–12).
†Calculated for 2000–2007.
‡Calculated for 2007.
§Calculated for 2000.
¶No data available for other years.
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