Dog-Mediated Human Rabies Death, Haiti, 2016

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• rabies
• Haiti
• zoonoses
• viruses
• rabies vaccinations
• hydrophobia