Volume 8, Number 9—September 2002
Research
Public Health Impact of Reemergence of Rabies, New York
Hwa-Gan H. Chang*
, Millicent Eidson*†, Candace Noonan-Toly*, Charles V. Trimarchi*, Robert Rudd*, Barbara J. Wallace*†, Perry F. Smith*†, and Dale L. Morse*†
, Millicent Eidson*†, Candace Noonan-Toly*, Charles V. Trimarchi*, Robert Rudd*, Barbara J. Wallace*†, Perry F. Smith*†, and Dale L. Morse*†
Table 1
Rabid animals by species, human exposure, and postexposure treatment, New York, 1993–1998a
| Animal species | No. (%)of rabid animals |
No. (range)b of humans receiving PET | |
|---|---|---|---|
| without human exposure | with human exposure | ||
| Raccoon Skunk Bat Fox Cat Cow Woodchuck Deer Dog Horse Beaver Goat Bobcat Coyote Rabbit Sheep Ferret Otherc Total | 4,983 (79.1) 895 (14.2) 221 (3.5) 101 (1.6) 18 (0.3) 12 (0.8) 44 (0.7) 14 (0.2) 3 (<0.1) 1 (<0.1) 2 (<0.1) 0 0 1 (<0.1) 1 (<0.1) 0 0 6 (<0.1) 6,302 (100) | 1,666 (65.2) 266 (10.4) 184 (7.2) 127 (5.0) 166 (6.5) 54 (2.1) 21 (0.8) 10 (0.4) 20 (0.8) 22 (0.9) 4 (0.2) 4 (0.2) 3 (<0.1) 2 (<0.1) 2 (<0.1) 2 (<0.1) 2 (<0.1) 1 (<0.1) 2,556 (100) | 2,944 (1–25) 470 (1–8) 377 (1–12) 229 (1–10) 844 (1–36) 246 (1–30) 32 (1–5) 42 (1–13) 286 (1–37) 139 (1–14) 9 (1–3) 476 (1–465) 7 (1–4) 2 (1) 12 (5–7) 7 (2–5) 16 (3–13) 1 (1) 6,139 (1–465) |
aPET, postexposure treatment.
bRange of number of PETs for a single exposure incident for a rabid animal
cOther species included one rabid opossum resulting in human PET, three rabid opossums, one fisher, one pig, and one otter without consequent human PET.
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