<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Admission of a human rabies case to hospital often creates great anxiety among staff that fear contamination. The care of a rabies patient requires only standard infectious precautions consisting of basic preventive measure applied in many other common diseases. This should be sufficient to prevent transmission to staff. Therefore, prevention of anxiety among health care workers should be an achievable goals.</p></abstract>

Admission of a human rabies case to hospital often creates great anxiety among staff that fear contamination. The care of a rabies patient requires only standard infectious precautions consisting of basic preventive measure applied in many other common diseases. This should be sufficient to prevent transmission to staff. Therefore, prevention of anxiety among health care workers should be an achievable goals.

Commentary. What is the risk of rabies transmission from patients to health care staff?

Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi 110002,

National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, cKempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore 560029,

Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore 560029,

Department of Community Medicine, Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka 571401,

Division of Neurovirology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330,

Asian Biomedicine

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Admission of a human rabies case to hospital often creates great anxiety among staff that fear contamination. The care of a rabies patient requires only...

Commentary. What is the risk of rabies transmission from patients to health care staff?

Publicado en línea: 04 feb 2017

Páginas: 937 - 939

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.0606.142

Palabras clave
Health care workers, prevention, rabies transmission

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Commentary. What is the risk of rabies transmission from patients to health care staff?

Publicado en línea: 04 feb 2017

Páginas: 937 - 939

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.0606.142

Palabras claveHealth care workers, prevention, rabies transmission

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Health care workers, prevention, rabies transmission