RESUMO

Haiti has experienced numerous barriers to rabies control over the past decades and is one of the remaining Western Hemisphere countries to report dog-mediated human rabies deaths. We describe the circumstances surrounding a reported human rabies death in 2016 as well as barriers to treatment and surveillance reporting.

Assuntos

Raiva/mortalidade , Raiva/transmissão , Zoonoses , Animais , Doenças do Cão/prevenção & controle , Doenças do Cão/virologia , Cães , Haiti/epidemiologia , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Raiva/epidemiologia , Raiva/história , Vacina Antirrábica/imunologia , Vacinação