Table 3.

Reasons reported by the 302 non-compliant patients or family who answered to the follow-up calls

Reason (by order of frequency)a	Number	%
Costs of the PEP were too expensive	131	43.4
Animal was still alive at the time of the follow-up call	93	30.8
Patient did not “feel ill” at the time of the planned visit	66	21.8
Medical staff of the Pasteur Institute of Dakar told during the previous visit (D7) that it was not necessary to continue the PEP if the animal was still alive at the time of the planned visit	62	20.5
Patient or family was not available to come to the Pasteur Institute of Dakar at the date of the planned visit (e.g. hospitalisation of the patient’s parent, or out of the region/country)	56	18.5
Patient or the patient’s family did not understand that the visits of D7 and D21 were mandatory to ensure the efficacy of PEP	22	7.2
Patient had an adverse event after the vaccine dose injection	5	1.6

^aPatients or family reported several reasons for not being compliant to PEP