Epidemiological pattern of dog bites and the occurrence of rabies in humans within Srinagar district of Kashmir Valley, India

Burden of illness of dog-mediated rabies in India: A systematic review

“…27 Furthermore, four studies mentioned that bite victims in the age group of 0-10 years were 11.7%, 34.1%, 11.3% and 22.4%of the total victims respectively. 29,31,34,42 These studies also reported that maximum number of the bites were in the age group of 10-40 years: 56.25%, 68.8%, 61.32% and 46.27% respectively. The victims above the age of 60 years were reported to be 8.2%, 4.4%, 6.38% and 4.4%, of the total victims in these studies.…”

“…The victims above the age of 60 years were reported to be 8.2%, 4.4%, 6.38% and 4.4%, of the total victims in these studies. 29,31,34,42 Another study reported a dog bite incidence of 1.03%, 8.66% and 1.7% in the age groups of 0-5, 6-10 and 11-16 years respectively in rural parts of Goa in 2018. 39 Sex: The males in the reported studies have disproportionately experienced more dog bites than females.…”

“…Only one modeling study reported all the three outcomes: epidemiological, economic and humanistic. 1 Out of 35 included studies, 23 were hospital (or clinic) based, [20][21][22][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]38,41,42,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] 9 were community (or household) based 4,23,[32][33][34][35]37,39,40 and 2 were modeling studies at country level 1,43 and was laboratory-based study. 36…”

“…The cohort studies included for epidemiological outcomes failed to describe any efforts to address potential sources of bias, statistical methods, other analyses undertaken and their external validity. [40][41][42] The criteria that were not reported in cross-sectional studies included for epidemiological outcomes were bias (95.2%), 4,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] other analyses (76.2%), [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]32,[35][36][37][38] generalisability (71.4%), [20][21][22][23][24][26][27][28][30][31]…”

“…The study participants of the reporting studies were animal bite victims (9 studies), [20][21][22][23][24][25][26]40,41 dog bite victims (7 studies), [27][28][29][30][31]38,42 general population (5 studies), [32][33][34][35] clinically rabies suspected cases (1 study), 36 households of rabies cases (1 study) 37 and national representative survey of deaths (1 study). 4 The models included were based on decision tree and simulation method.…”