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

ABSTRACT: In Latin America, there has been tremendous progress towards eliminating canine rabies. Major components of rabies elimination programs leading to these successes have been constant and regular surveillance for rabid dogs and uninterrupted yearly mass dog vaccination campaigns. Unfortunately, vital measures to control COVID-19 have had the negative trade-off of jeopardizing these rabies elimination and prevention activities. 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 to create a conceptual framework for how different disruptions may affect rabies virus transmission. We parameterized the model for conditions found in Arequipa, Peru, a city with

SUBMITTER: Raynor B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8174740 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature