Volume 5, Number 3—June 1999
Research
Human Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis during a Raccoon Rabies Epizootic in New York, 1993 and 1994
Jeffrey D. Wyatt*
, William H. Barker*, Nancy M. Bennett†, and Cathleen A. Hanlon‡
, William H. Barker*, Nancy M. Bennett†, and Cathleen A. Hanlon‡
Table 3
Human rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) in New York State, 1993-94: Epidemiologic characteristicsa
| Group size | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6+ | |||||||
| Characteristic | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| Number | 625 | 53 | 180 | 15 | 84 | 7 | 112 | 10 | 60 | 5 | 112 | 10 |
| No. of sources | 625 | 79 | 90 | 11 | 28 | 4 | 28 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 2 |
| Route of exposure | ||||||||||||
| Biteb | 328 | 52 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Nonbite | 296 | 47 | 163 | 91 | 80 | 95 | 109 | 97 | 60 | 100 | 109 | 97 |
| Unknown | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source of exposure | ||||||||||||
| Dog or cat | 273 | 44 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 64 | 57 |
| Other domestic species | 2 | 0.3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Raccoon | 235 | 38 | 124 | 69 | 57 | 68 | 96 | 86 | 35 | 58 | 42 | 38 |
| Bat | 39 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other wild species | 76 | 12 | 24 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Mean age (yr) | 33.4 | 32.5 | 24.8 | 22.5 | 21.8 | 26.0 | ||||||
aPEP data are from Cayuga, Monroe, Onondaga, and Wayne Counties.
bProbability of bite exposure for PEP involving single person vs. group of >1 PEP cases, p <0.001.
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