Evaluation of country infrastructure as an indirect measure of dog-mediated human rabies deaths.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rabies is a neglected disease, primarily due to poor detection stemming from limited surveillance and diagnostic capabilities in most countries. As a result, there is limited ability to monitor and evaluate country, regional, and global progress towards the WHO goal of eliminating human rabies deaths by 2030. There is a need for a low-cost, readily reproducible method of estimating rabies burden and elimination capacity in endemic countries.

Methods

Publicly available economic, environmental, political, social, public health, and One Health indicators were evaluated to identify variables with strong correlation to country-level rabies burden estimates. A novel index was developed to estimate infrastructural rabies elimination capacity and annual case-burden for do

SUBMITTER: Bonaparte SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10203152 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature