Table 2. Countries with 5 highest levels of exposure among 2,697 patients who sought care for animal exposure and received rabies postexposure prophylaxis at GeoSentinel Surveillance Network sites, January 1997–December 2012, by animal species.
| No. |
Animal, country of exposure, no. (%) exposures |
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| Dog, n = 1,618 |
NHP, n = 638 |
Cat, n = 271 |
Bat, n = 46 |
Other, n = 126 |
Total, n = 2,697 |
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| 1 | Thailand, 294 (18) | Indonesia, 200 (31) | Thailand, 59 (22) | Indonesia, 7 (15) | Thailand, 16 (13) | Thailand, 534 (20) |
| 2 | Nepal, 198 (12) | Thailand, 166 (26) | Turkey, 31 (11) | French Guyana, 5 (11) | India,10 (8) | Indonesia, 314 (12) |
| 3 | China, 197 (12) | Nepal, 82 (13) | China, 25 (9) | Peru, 4 (9) | Indonesia, 10 (8) | Nepal, 295 (10) |
| 4 | India, 124 (8) | India, 43 (7) | Indonesia, 17 (6) | Mexico, 3 (7) | China, 6 (5) | China, 241 (9) |
| 5 | Indonesia, 80 (5) | Vietnam, 21 (3) | Algeria, 15 (6) | Surinam, 3 (7) | Nepal, 6 (5) | India, 185 (7) |