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High time to prioritise rabies prevention-a new paradigm.

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Almost 500 patients consulted a GeoSentinel clinic annually for post-exposure prophylaxis after a potential rabies exposure as compared to approximately 20 for hepatitis A and 40 for typhoid fever. Travellers’… Click to show full abstract

Almost 500 patients consulted a GeoSentinel clinic annually for post-exposure prophylaxis after a potential rabies exposure as compared to approximately 20 for hepatitis A and 40 for typhoid fever. Travellers’ response after potential rabies exposure is alarmingly inadequate. Thus, rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis should now become the #1 travel vaccine intervention.

Keywords: rabies prevention; time prioritise; high time; prevention new; new paradigm; prioritise rabies

Journal Title: Journal of travel medicine
Year Published: 2020

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