Vincent Hsu, M. Jahangir Hossain, Umesh D. Parashar, Mohammed Monsur Ali et al.
We retrospectively investigated two outbreaks of encephalitis in Meherpur and Naogaon, Bangladesh, which occurred in 2001 and We collected serum samples from persons who were ill, their household contacts, randomly selected residents, hospital workers, and various animals. Cases were classified as l...
Ivan V. Kuzmin, Michael Niezgoda, Darin S. Carroll, Natalie Keeler et al.
Lyssavirus surveillance in bats was performed in Bangladesh during 2003 and 2004. No virus isolates were obtained. Three serum samples (all from Pteropus giganteus, n = 127) of 288 total serum samples, obtained from bats in 9 different taxa, neutralized lyssaviruses Aravan and Khujand. The infection...
Tinsae Alemayehu, Benson Oguttu, Charles E. Rupprecht, Vettakkara Kandy Muhammed Niyas
Human rabies (Sanskrit "rabhas", to do violence; Latin "rabere", to rage) is an ancient scourge which claims the lives of tens of thousands of people per year worldwide. Numbers of clinical cases and deaths are grossly under-reported due to diagnostic limitations in low-and middle-income countries (...
Charles E. Rupprecht
Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006-2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in Bangladesh and a subset of rabies death data (422...