The rise and fall of rabies in Japan: A quantitative history of rabies epidemics in Osaka Prefecture, 1914-1933.

• Main Authors: Aiko Kurosawa (Author), Kageaki Tojinbara (Author), Hazumu Kadowaki (Author), Katie Hampson (Author), Akio Yamada (Author), Kohei Makita (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Japan has been free from rabies since the 1950s. However, during the early 1900s several large-scale epidemics spread throughout the country. Here we investigate the dynamics of these epidemics between 1914 and 1933 in Osaka Prefecture, using archival data including newspapers. The association betwe...