TY - JOUR AU - Badilla, Xiomara AU - Pérez-Herra, Victor AU - Quirós, Ligia AU - Morice, Ana AU - Jiménez, Edwin AU - Sáenz, Elizabeth AU - Salazar, Fernando AU - Fernández, Rodrigo AU - Orciari, Lillian AU - Yager, Pamela AU - Whitfield, Sylvia AU - Rupprecht, Charles E. T1 - Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica? T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2003 VL - 9 IS - 6 SP - 721 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in persons. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector. KW - human rabies KW - bat KW - Costa Rica KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid0906.020632 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/6/02-0632_article ER - End of Reference