Dog-Mediated Rabies Surveillance in Nigeria (2014-2023): Investigating Seasonality and Spatial Clustering.

ABSTRACT: Rabies is an important zoonotic disease responsible for 59,000 human deaths worldwide each year. More than a third of these deaths occur in Africa. The first step in controlling rabies is establishing the burden of disease through data analysis and investigating regional risk to help prioritise resources. Here, we evaluated the surveillance data collected over the last decade in Nigeria (2014-2023). A spatio-temporal model was developed using the NIMBLE (1.2.1) package in R to assess outbreak risk. Our analysis found a high risk of canine rabies outbreaks in Plateau state and its surrounding states, as well as increased trends of outbreaks from July to September. The high number of reported canine rabies outbreaks in the North Central region could be due to cross-border transmission or imp

SUBMITTER: Williams RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11946520 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature