Current issues in rabies prevention in the United States: Health dilemmas, public coffers, private interests

Public Health Reports

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 400-407

  Rupprecht, Charles E ^a,b,d   Smith, Jean S ^a   Krebs, John ^a   Niezgoda, Michael ^a   Childs, James E ^a,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Rabies Section   (United States)

^c Epidemiology Section   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

BITE; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; HUMANS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029791051     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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