Pape W J, Fitzsimmons T D, Hoffman R E
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis. 1999 May-Jun;5(3):433-7. doi: 10.3201/eid0503.990315.
To assess the risk for rabies transmission to humans by bats, we analyzed the prevalence of rabies in bats that encountered humans from 1977 to 1996 and characterized the bat-human encounters. Rabies was diagnosed in 685 (15%) of 4,470 bats tested. The prevalence of rabies in bats that bit humans was 2.1 times higher than in bats that did not bite humans. At least a third of the encounters were preventable.
为评估蝙蝠将狂犬病传播给人类的风险,我们分析了1977年至1996年间接触人类的蝙蝠的狂犬病患病率,并对蝙蝠与人类的接触情况进行了特征描述。在检测的4470只蝙蝠中,有685只(15%)被诊断患有狂犬病。咬人的蝙蝠的狂犬病患病率比未咬人的蝙蝠高2.1倍。至少三分之一的接触是可以预防的。