Rabies cases a continuing threat to global public health: ancient disease still a modern problem.

The Nation's Health | November 1, 2009| | Copyright

THOUGH IT IS one of the world's oldest diseases, rabies continues to surprise the vigilant public health researchers and workers who keep the disease at bay in the United States and labor to control the often fatal disease around the world.

Every year, 55,000 people, or about one person every 10 minutes, die due to rabies, even though such deaths are preventable. Like many diseases, rabies' mortality burden falls disproportionately on the developing world, where a lack of infrastructure, awareness and access to health services and treatments means that a ...

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