Rabies vaccine initiation and adherence among animal-bite patients in Haiti, 2015.

• Main Authors: Cuc H Tran (Author), Maxwell Kligerman (Author), Lesly L Andrecy (Author), Melissa D Etheart (Author), Paul Adrien (Author), Jesse D Blanton (Author), Max Millien (Author), Ryan M Wallace (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Approximately 59,000 people die from rabies worldwide annually. Haiti is one of the last remaining countries in the Western Hemisphere with endemic canine rabies. Canine-mediated rabies deaths are preventable with post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP): wound treatment, immunoglobulin, and vacci...