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Human Infection Due to Recombinant Vaccinia–Rabies Glycoprotein Virus
 

Charles E. Rupprecht, V.M.D., Ph.D., Leonard Blass, M.D., Kathy Smith, D.V.M., Lillian A. Orciari, M.S., Michael Niezgoda, M.S., Sylvia G. Whitfield, M.S., Robert V. Gibbons, M.D., Marta Guerra, D.V.M., Ph.D., and Cathleen A. Hanlon, V.M.D., Ph.D.

 

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Rabies is a fatal viral disease transmitted from animals to humans. It causes more than 35,000 human deaths per year.1 Successful application of veterinary vaccines can eliminate canine rabies in an area, but control of rabies in free-ranging carnivores requires other strategies, such as oral vaccination.2 Live viral vaccines containing modified live rabies or recombinant vaccinia–rabies glycoprotein virus, placed in a bait, are used for disease control in Europe and North America.2,3,4,5 In the United States, more than 22 million doses of vaccinia–rabies glycoprotein vaccine were distributed from 1990 to 2000, . . . (Click here for the full text of this article.)

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