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An estimated 31,000 human deaths due to rabies occur annually in Asia, [4] with the majority – approximately 20,000 – concentrated in India. [5] Worldwide, India has the highest rate of human rabies in the world primarily due to stray dogs.
Rabies causes about 59,000 deaths worldwide per year, [6] about 40% of which are in children under the age of 15. [16] More than 95% of human deaths from rabies occur in Africa and Asia. [1] Rabies is present in more than 150 countries and on all continents but Antarctica. [1] More than 3 billion people live in regions of the world where rabies ...
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were 468 deaths in the United States from being bitten or struck by a dog between 2011 and 2021. [2] This is an average of 43 deaths annually, ranging from a low of 31 deaths in 2016 and a high of 81 deaths in 2021. [2] Dogs killed more males than females during the tracking decade. [2]
On a global scale, however, the World Health Organization reports that dogs are the main source of human rabies deaths, contributing up to 99% of all rabies transmissions to humans.
In the United States, domestic cats are the most commonly reported rabid animal. [17] In the United States, as of 2008, between 200 and 300 cases are reported annually; [18] in 2017, 276 cats with rabies were reported. [19] As of 2010, in every year since 1990, reported cases of rabies in cats outnumbered cases of rabies in dogs. [17]
Most pets get rabies from having contact with wildlife. Because laws require dogs to be vaccinated for rabies in the United States, dogs make up about 1% of rabid animals reported each year in the ...
A CDC spokesperson told Newsy an estimated 1 million dogs enter the U.S. each year, and since 2015 a total of four imported dogs have tested positive for rabies. CDC to Ban Import of Dogs From ...
In India, where it is estimated that there are about 62 million free-ranging dogs, [6] about 17,4 million animal bites occur annually, resulting in 20,565 human rabies deaths. [29] Rabies is endemic in India, with the country accounting for 36% of the world’s rabies deaths. [30] Free-ranging dogs in Guinea-Bissau