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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: Antiviral Res. 2017 Mar 29;146:221–232. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2017.03.013

Table 2.

Countries of the Americas that reported cases of human rabies caused by exposure to animals other than dogs (2005-2016).

Country 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total
Bolivia 1* 1
Brazil 42*, 1+ 2*, 1@ 1*, 1¿, 1+ 1+, 1** 1*, 1+, 1# 2+ 1$ 1$ 58
Canada 1 1
Colombia 3* 1¿ 2$, 1¿ 2$, 1*, 1¿ 3$, 1¿ 1$ 16
Dominican Republic 1$ 1! 2
Ecuador 2* 1$ 12* 15
Mexico 5**, 1& 1** 2¿, 2& 3* 3@, 1¿ 4* 2*, 1% 1¿ 26
Peru 7* 2* 23*, 1^ 19* 13* 19* 10* 5* 3* 9* 111
United States 1 2** 1** 1**, 1& 3 1*, 1** 4 1 1 1 1 19
Venezuela 1* 1
*

Hematophagous bat;

**

Non-hematophagous bat;

¿

Bats species not reported;

+

Monkey;

@

Bovine;

#

Deer;

$

Cat;

&

Fox;

%

Skunk;

^

Equine;

!

Mongoose;

>

Raccoon.

Samples for which species was not reported were removed. There were no data available for 2014. Sources: SIRVERA http://siepi.panaftosa.org.br/, accessed 2/15/17. Cases for the United States were complemented with data from (Dyer et al., 2014) and (Monroe et al., 2016.) Human case from Canada were collected from: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/cfia-acia/2011-09-21/www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/disemala/rabrag/statse.shtml.