Division of Arboviruses, Korea National Institute of Health, Osong, Korea.
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Year | City/district | Site of wound | Rabid animal | Incubation period (wk) | PEP | |
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1999 | Paju-si | Unknown | Dog | Unknown | Unknown | |
2001 | Hwacheon-gun | Arm | Raccoon dog | 11 | No | |
2002 | Yeoncheon-gun | Face | Dog | 5 | Yes | |
2003 | Pocheon-si | Face | Dog | 3 | Yes | |
2003 | Pocheon-si | Face | Raccoon dog | 8 | No | |
2004 | Goyang-si | Arm | Dog | 11 | No |
Animal vaccination to rabies | Animal management | Treatment of animal bite case (%)a | |||
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Wound treatment | Incomplete PEP | Appropriate PEP | Complete PEP | ||
Vaccination | Observation | 20.1 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 2.1 |
Necropsy | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | |
None | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
Nonvaccinated | Observation | 26.3 | 9.3 | 5.1 | 10.4 |
Necropsy | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 | |
None | 3.6 | 1.8 | 4.0 | 6.8 |
PEP = post-exposure prophylaxis.
aComplete post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) means that both human rabies immune globulin (HRIG) and vaccination were administered. Appropriate PEP means that vaccination was administered without HRIG.
PEP = post-exposure prophylaxis.