The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period
Rabies is a zoonotic disease (a disease transmitted to humans from animals) that is caused by a virus. The disease affects domestic and wild animals, and is spread to people through close contact with infectious material, usually saliva, via bites or scratches. Rabies is present on all continents wi...
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ftunivrijeka:oai:www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr:medri_5830 2024-02-11T09:57:10+01:00 The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period Vodopija, Radovan Racz, Aleksandar Pahor, Đana 2016 application/pdf https://www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:5830 https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:184:220966 https://www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:5830/datastream/FILE0 eng eng Sveučilište u Rijeci. Medicinski fakultet. Katedra za socijalnu medicinu i epidemiologiju. University of Rijeka. Faculty of Medicine. Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology. https://www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:5830 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.20471/acc.2016.55.01.20 https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:184:220966 https://www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:5830/datastream/FILE0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ http://bib.irb.hr/821178 Acta clinica Croatica Volume 55 Issue 1 ISSN 0353-9466 (Print) BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita. Epidemiologija BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Public Health and Health Care. Epidemiology Rabies – epidemiology Rabies – statistics and numerical data Croatia Jackals – virology BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Kliničke medicinske znanosti BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Clinical Medical Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2016 ftunivrijeka https://doi.org/10.20471/acc.2016.55.01.20 2024-01-25T17:41:38Z Rabies is a zoonotic disease (a disease transmitted to humans from animals) that is caused by a virus. The disease affects domestic and wild animals, and is spread to people through close contact with infectious material, usually saliva, via bites or scratches. Rabies is present on all continents with the exception of Antarctica, but more than 95% of human deaths occur in Asia and Africa. Once the symptoms of the disease have developed, rabies is nearly always fatal. People are usually infected following deep bite or scratch by an infected animal. Dogs are the main host and transmitter of rabies. They are the source of infection in all of the estimated 55 000 human rabies deaths annually in Asia and Africa. Bats are the source of most human rabies deaths in the Americas. Bat rabies has also recently emerged as a public health threat in Australia and Western Europe. Human deaths following exposure to foxes, raccoons, skunks, jackals, mongooses and other wild carnivore host species are very rare. In the Zagreb Anti Rabies Clinic, from 1995 to 2014, there were 18, 094 patients bitten by various animals, but only 2 cases were caused by jackals. One was imported (from France), and the other was from Croatia. The incidence of jackal injuries during the observed period was extremely low, accounting for 0.011% of all animals. When the imported case is excluded, the incidence was 0.0055%. Accordingly, it is concluded that jackal bites and injuries are exceptionally low and that they pose no risk for patients who present routinely to the Zagreb Anti Rabies Clinic. Therefore, it is justified that jackal as an animal species be classified in the group of ‘other animals’, when officially reported Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Repository of the University of Rijeka Acta Clinica Croatica 151 155 |
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BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita. Epidemiologija BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Public Health and Health Care. Epidemiology Rabies – epidemiology Rabies – statistics and numerical data Croatia Jackals – virology BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Kliničke medicinske znanosti BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Clinical Medical Sciences |
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BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita. Epidemiologija BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Public Health and Health Care. Epidemiology Rabies – epidemiology Rabies – statistics and numerical data Croatia Jackals – virology BIOMEDICINA I ZDRAVSTVO. Kliničke medicinske znanosti BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE. Clinical Medical Sciences Vodopija, Radovan Racz, Aleksandar Pahor, Đana The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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Rabies is a zoonotic disease (a disease transmitted to humans from animals) that is caused by a virus. The disease affects domestic and wild animals, and is spread to people through close contact with infectious material, usually saliva, via bites or scratches. Rabies is present on all continents with the exception of Antarctica, but more than 95% of human deaths occur in Asia and Africa. Once the symptoms of the disease have developed, rabies is nearly always fatal. People are usually infected following deep bite or scratch by an infected animal. Dogs are the main host and transmitter of rabies. They are the source of infection in all of the estimated 55 000 human rabies deaths annually in Asia and Africa. Bats are the source of most human rabies deaths in the Americas. Bat rabies has also recently emerged as a public health threat in Australia and Western Europe. Human deaths following exposure to foxes, raccoons, skunks, jackals, mongooses and other wild carnivore host species are very rare. In the Zagreb Anti Rabies Clinic, from 1995 to 2014, there were 18, 094 patients bitten by various animals, but only 2 cases were caused by jackals. One was imported (from France), and the other was from Croatia. The incidence of jackal injuries during the observed period was extremely low, accounting for 0.011% of all animals. When the imported case is excluded, the incidence was 0.0055%. Accordingly, it is concluded that jackal bites and injuries are exceptionally low and that they pose no risk for patients who present routinely to the Zagreb Anti Rabies Clinic. Therefore, it is justified that jackal as an animal species be classified in the group of ‘other animals’, when officially reported |
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The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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The incidence of Jackal bites and injuries in the Zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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incidence of jackal bites and injuries in the zagreb anti rabies clinic during the 1995–2014 period |
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Sveučilište u Rijeci. Medicinski fakultet. Katedra za socijalnu medicinu i epidemiologiju. University of Rijeka. Faculty of Medicine. Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology. https://www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:5830 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.20471/acc.2016.55.01.20 https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:184:220966 https://www.unirepository.svkri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:5830/datastream/FILE0 |
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