Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Dog-Mediated Rabies: Disparities in Incidence and Surveillance Effort in a Latin American City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dog-mediated human rabies is intuitively linked to poverty, but few studies have formally investigated the relationship between local socioeconomic disadvantage and dog rabies incidence.

Methods

We leveraged a unique, high-spatial-resolution surveillance database from the rabies-endemic city of Arequipa, Peru to probe the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and dog rabies risk in 2015-2022. Rabies cases and samples were assigned to the SES level of their block or locality of origin, respectively. We tested the hypothesis that lower SES is associated with increased case positivity, and used a spatial statistical model to understand how sample positivity varied spatially.

Results

Rabies cases were concentrated in socioeconomically dis

SUBMITTER: Xie S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11998808 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature