Current characteristics of animal rabies cases in Thailand and relevant risk factors identified by a spatial modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: The situation of human rabies in Thailand has gradually declined over the past four decades. However, the number of animal rabies cases has slightly increased in the last ten years. This study thus aimed to describe the characteristics of animal rabies between 2017 and 2018 in Thailand in which the prevalence was fairly high and to quantify the association between monthly rabies occurrences and explainable variables using the generalized additive models (GAMs) to predict the spatial risk areas for rabies spread. Our results indicate that the majority of animals affected by rabies in Thailand are dogs. Most of the affected dogs were owned, free or semi-free roaming, and unvaccinated. Clusters of rabies were highly distributed in the northeast, followed by the central and the south of the co

SUBMITTER: Thanapongtharm W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668119 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature