ReviewViruses2024
Rabies in Cats-An Emerging Public Health Issue.
Review in Viruses, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis as a complementary vaccination strategy to reduce rabies in Kerala, India: a cost-effectiveness modelling study.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2026Article
- Encephalitic rabies following cat bites: two cases in northern Uganda.Practical neurology · 2026Article
- Nationwide registry-based analysis of rabies exposures in Iran: Epidemiological patterns and post-exposure prophylaxis adherence.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Cat-Related Injuries and Rabies Exposure: A Three-Decade Retrospective Analysis from the Zagreb Antirabies Clinic (1995-2025).Viruses · 2026Article
- Equine Rabies in Southern Colombia, 2024-2025.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Pathogens Associated with Domestic Cats (Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Survey on the current status of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis clinics construction and the surveillance of rabies-exposed individuals in China, 2022.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Epidemiological Analysis of Rabies Outbreaks in the European Union and Türkiye (2013-2023).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Outdoor roaming of owned cats elevates risk of zoonotic pathogen exposure: A global synthesis.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- The Role of Companion Animals as 'Sentinels' From the One Health Perspective.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Review
- Development of a non-invasive diagnostic method for pathogenic RNA viruses using sebum wiped from the cat's body surface.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Owner-Directed Feline Aggression in Thailand: Characteristics, Associated Factors, and a Clinical Comparison of Treatments.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Temporal changes in rabies epidemiology in Brazil: an analysis of notifications of suspected and confirmed human rabies cases, 2010-2025.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2026Article
- Cat Bites in Southern Mexico: Epidemiological Patterns and One Health Perspective.Veterinary medicine international · 2026Article
- Rabies Outbreak in an Urban, Unmanaged Cat Colony - Maryland, August 2024.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2025Article
- The Challenge of Lyssavirus Infections in Domestic and Other Animals: A Mix of Virological Confusion, Consternation, Chagrin, and Curiosity.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Infection and Prevention of Rabies Viruses.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- First isolation of rabies virus from a Eurasian badger (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Human rabies cases today are predominantly associated with infection from rabid domestic dogs. Unlike dogs, a common global reservoir species that perpetuates rabies viruses (RABV) within their populations, domestic cats are much less frequently reported or vaccinated. Epidemiologically, cats are important vectors of lyssaviruses but are not viral reservoirs. Typically, cats are incidental hosts only, infected with the predominant lyssavirus in their geographic locale. Human cases associated with rabid cats have occurred in Africa, Asia, Europe and throughout the Americas. As adept, solitary hunters, wild and domestic felids are at risk of lyssavirus infection based upon interactions with infected prey, such as bats, or from transmission by other mesocarnivores, such as rabid dogs, foxes, jackals, raccoons, and skunks. Current veterinary vaccines provide safe and effective immunity in cats against phylogroup I lyssaviruses, such as RABV, but not against divergent lyssaviruses in phylogroups II-IV. With the focus upon the global elimination of canine rabies, the emergence of rabies in cats represents a concerning trend. Clearly, education about the occurrence of rabies in cats needs to be improved, as well as the routine vaccination of cats to reduce the associated risks to public health, agriculture, and conservation biology from a One Health perspective.
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