One health surveillance: linking human and animal rabies surveillance data in Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rabies poses a significant public health and economic challenge in Kenya. The Kenya rabies elimination strategy identifies surveillance as a key pillar to achieve the targets of ending human deaths from rabies by 2030. Here we investigated the utility of the national human and animal rabies surveillance data to provide robust surveillance data to guide the Kenya rabies elimination program.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of the official rabies data obtained from the national human and animal health surveillance systems between 2017 and 2023. We obtained data on bites, cases, and deaths in dogs and humans due to rabies. We estimated incidences and tested the relationships between rabies variables in human and dogs as a proxy for robust data availabi

SUBMITTER: Kahariri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12206715 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature