Table. Cases of human rabies in 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010–2012*.
Country | Rabies transmitted by other animals |
Rabies transmitted by bats |
Rabies transmitted by dogs |
Total | ||||||||
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2010 | 2011 | 2012† | 2010 | 2011 | 2012† | 2010 | 2011 | 2012† | ||||
Bolivia | 0 | 0 | 1‡ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | ||
Brazil | 1§ | 0 | 2‡§ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||
Colombia | 3¶ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
Ecuador | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||
Guatemala | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
Haiti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 16 | ||
Honduras | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mexico | 0 | 1# | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
Peru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 46 | ||
Dominican Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | ||
Total | 4 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 33 | 11 | 6 | 24 | 10 | 111 |
*Data were obtained from the Regional Information System of Epidemiologic Surveillance of Rabies in the Americas/Epidemiologic Information System, Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Pan American Health Organization–World Health Organization, 2012. †Data were updated in December 2012. ‡Human rabies transmitted by undetermined animal species (variant hematophagous bat). §Human rabies transmitted by a marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus). ¶Human rabies transmitted by a cat (variant nonhematophagous bat). #Human rabies transmitted by a skunk.