Epidemiological profile of rabies in Brazil during the years 2014 to 2016
International Journal of Development Research
Epidemiological profile of rabies in Brazil during the years 2014 to 2016
Received 19th May, 2018; Received in revised form 28th June, 2018; Accepted 08th July, 2018; Published online 30th August, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Bruna Carolina Ulsenheimer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The rabies virus, since a long time ago, has been a constant concern for the world populations, due to being a potentially fatal zoonosis, affects both humans and animals. This study aimed to describe the presentation and the rabies virus epidemiology in Brazil during the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, in different animal species from both the urban cycle, and the rural cycle, in addition to the cases in humans. For this official data presented by the Ministry of Health were presented, and the compilation of such data, presenting them graphically, facilitating the presentation understanding of the rabies virus in Brazil. Thus a predominance of rural cycle was observed, and it was found that the occurrence of rabies cases in Brazil has been decreasing, but preventive and control measures still need to be taken to further reduce the cases of rabies, since it is a zoonosis that puts public health at risk.
