The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rabies reemergence in Latin America: the case of Arequipa, Peru.

ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, there has been tremendous progress towards eliminating canine rabies in Latin America. Major components of rabies prevention programs in Latin America leading to these successes have been constant and intense surveillance for rabid dogs and uninterrupted yearly mass dog vaccination campaigns. However, vital measures to control COVID-19 in Latin America have had the negative trade-off of jeopardizing these rabies elimination and prevention activities. In this paper, we aimed to assess the effect of interrupting canine rabies surveillance and mass dog vaccination campaigns on rabies trends. We built a deterministic compartment model of dog rabies dynamics parameterized for conditions found in Arequipa, Peru, where there is an ongoing dog rabies epidemic. Our model sugg

SUBMITTER: Raynor B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430610 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature