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National borders effectively halt the spread of rabies: the current rabies epidemic in China is dislocated from cases in neighboring countries.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Jan 2013
Guo Zhenyang, Tao Xiaoyan, Yin Cuiping, Han Na, Yu Jinning, Li Hao, Liu Haizhou, Fang Wei, Adams James, Wang Jun, Liang Guodong, Tang Qing, Rayner Simon
Abstract excerpt
China has seen a massive resurgence of rabies cases in the last 15 years with more than 25,000 human fatalities. Initial cases were reported in the southwest but are now reported in almost every province. There have been several phylogenetic investigations into the origin and spread of the virus within China but few reports investigating the impact of the epidemic on neighboring countries. We therefore collected...
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