Rabies in South Africa and the FIFA Soccer World Cup : travelers awareness for an endemic but neglected disease
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Malerczyk, Claudius
Nel, Louis Hendrik
Gniel, Dieter
Blumberg, Lucille Hellen
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Landes Bioscience
Abstract
Rabies is endemic on every continent except Antarctica and
is also considered to be a significant health problem in Africa,
including South Africa.
With the upcoming FIFA Soccer World Cup to be held in 2010
in cities throughout South Africa, this review depicts the rabies
situation in South Africa and discusses what travelers visiting
the games should know about rabies and rabies prophylaxis
before or after an exposure to a potential rabid animal occurs.
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World Cup (Soccer) -- 2010, Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), FIFA World Cup 2010
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Malerczyk, C, Nel, LH, Gniel, D & Blumberg, L 2010, 'Rabies in South Africa and the FIFA Soccer World Cup: travelers awareness for an endemic but neglected disease', Human Vaccines, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 385-389. [www.landesbioscience.com/journals/vaccines/article/11713]