ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2018
Rabies in the Caribbean: A Situational Analysis and Historic Review.
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- Equine Rabies in Southern Colombia, 2024-2025.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- A cross-sectional serological study of bats in the United States Virgin Islands during 2019 to 2020 reveals no evidence of rabies virus exposure.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Rabies risk and response in tea-estate health systems in Assam, India: a constructivist grounded theory analysis.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic disparities and dog rabies: a retrospective analysis of high-spatial-resolution surveillance data from a Latin American city.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- The Challenge of Lyssavirus Infections in Domestic and Other Animals: A Mix of Virological Confusion, Consternation, Chagrin, and Curiosity.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Exploring one health-based strategies for rabies elimination: Overview and future prospects.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Review
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Dog-Mediated Rabies: Disparities in Incidence and Surveillance Effort in a Latin American City.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Using molecular approaches to assess rabies virus diversity in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Prioritization of zoonoses of wildlife origin for multisectoral one health collaboration in Guyana, 2022.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Tick-borne viruses and their risk to public health in the Caribbean: Spotlight on bats as reservoirs in Cuba.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Home range overlap between small Indian mongooses and free roaming domestic dogs in Puerto Rico: implications for rabies management.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- An Overview of Anthropogenic Actions as Drivers for Emerging and Re-Emerging Zoonotic Diseases.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A review of the circumstances and health-seeking behaviours associated with bat exposures in high-income countries.Zoonoses and public health · 2022Review
- A mixed-methods approach to understanding domestic dog health and disease transmission risk in an indigenous reserve in Guyana, South America.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Rabies in the Tropics.Current tropical medicine reports · 2022Review
- Determination of freedom-from-rabies for small Indian mongoose populations in the United States Virgin Islands, 2019-2020.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Rabies in Costa Rica - Next Steps Towards Controlling Bat-Borne Rabies After its Elimination in Dogs.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021Review
- Oral Rabies Vaccination of Small Indian Mongooses (Viruses · 2021Article
- Modeling Mongoose Rabies in the Caribbean: A Model-Guided Fieldwork Approach to Identify Research Priorities.Viruses · 2021Article
- Risk Modeling of Bat Rabies in the Caribbean Islands.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Article
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Abstract
Rabies virus is the only Lyssavirus species found in the Americas. In discussions about rabies, Latin America and the Caribbean are often grouped together. Our study aimed to independently analyse the rabies situation in the Caribbean and examine changes in rabies spatiotemporal epidemiology. A questionnaire was administered to the 33 member countries and territories of the Caribbean Animal Health Network (CaribVET) to collect current data, which was collated with a literature review. Rabies was endemic in ten Caribbean localities, with the dog, mongoose, and vampire bat identified as enzootic reservoirs. The majority of animal cases occurred in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, while human cases only consistently occurred in the latter two areas. Rabies vaccination was conducted for high-risk animal populations with variable coverage, and rabies diagnostic capacities varied widely throughout the region. Illegal importation and natural migration of animals may facilitate the introduction of rabies virus variants into virus-naïve areas. Passive surveillance, together with enhanced methods and serological screening techniques, can therefore be of value. The insularity of the Caribbean makes it ideal for conducting pilot studies on reservoir host population management. Best practice guidelines developed for these reservoir hosts can be individually modified to the epidemiological status and available resources within each locality.
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