Establishment of a High Canine Rabies Burden in Haiti through the Implementation of a Novel Surveillance Program [corrected].

• Main Authors: Ryan M Wallace (Author), Hannah Reses (Author), Richard Franka (Author), Pierre Dilius (Author), Natael Fenelon (Author), Lillian Orciari (Author), Melissa Etheart (Author), Apollon Destine (Author), Kelly Crowdis (Author), Jesse D Blanton (Author), Calvin Francisco (Author), Fleurinord Ludder (Author), Victor Del Rio Vilas (Author), Joseph Haim (Author), Max Millien (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Republic of Haiti is one of only several countries in the Western Hemisphere in which canine rabies is still endemic. Estimation methods have predicted that 130 human deaths occur per year, yet existing surveillance mechanisms have detected few of these rabies cases. Likewise, canine rabies surv...