Table 1.

The impacts and economic burdens of canine rabies vary by continent

Impacts	Africa	Asia	Latin America
Deaths	21,502	37,266	182
Deaths/100,000 population	2.09	0.93	0.03
DALYs lost	1,345,643	2,354,159	11,951
Exposures (to rabies, not all dog bites)	847,326	14,633,844	122,701
PEP treatments	1,387,848	26,589,222	835,656
Dog vaccination coverage	∼14%	∼16%	∼60%
Costs of prevention (US$)	15,948,303	42,115,175	63,287,263
Dog vaccination	14,520,789	38,528,371	61,033,617
Dog population management	1,305,247	3,369,953	1,930,503
Surveillance	122,267	216,851	323,143
Preventable costs (US$)	1,266,514,109	6,660,728,927	289,466,942
Productivity losses	773,352,665	3,852,276,021	30,242,012
Direct PEP	156,110,495	1,363,634,648	129,331,962
Indirect PEP	57,504,777	1,225,773,035	117,705,839
Livestock losses	279,546,173	219,045,223	12,187,129
Total costs (US$)	1,282,462,412	6,702,844,102	352,754,205
Costs of prevention/person	0.02	0.01	0.12
Preventable costs/person	1.23	1.67	0.54

Notes: The bold data indicate total US$ costs. Preventable costs are considered to be all those that would be eliminated with the global elimination of canine rabies. Data are derived from Hampson K, Coudeville L, Lembo T, et al. Estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015;9(4):e0003709.⁸

Abbreviations: DALYs, disability-adjusted life years; PEP, postexposure prophylaxis.