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Vanina Mazzillo
We identified Yezo virus infection in a febrile patient who had a tick bite in northeastern China, where 0.5% of Ixodes persulcatus ticks were positive for viral RNA. Clinicians should be aware of this potential health threat and include this emerging virus in the differential diagnosis for tick-bitten patients in this region.
YZEV was identified in a tick-bitten patient who had febrile illness and I. persulcatus tick bites in northeastern China. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed the association between febrile illness and the virus. To date, there are >8 pathogenetic tickborne viruses in humans and animals found in northeastern China: tickborne encephalitis virus (7), severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (8), Nairobi sheep disease virus (9), Alongshan virus (10), Jingmen tick virus (11), Songling virus (3), Beiji nairovirus (4), and YEZV. Differential diagnosis of these tickborne viruses should be conducted in for febrile patients who have a history of tick bites in northeastern China.
Dog bites are common in rural areas of underdeveloped countries or regions, affecting persons of different ages. Suspected rabid dog bites will lead to more severe outcomes, especially in children because injuries often occur on their heads and faces that are highly innervated parts of the body. In such circumstances, immediate and complete post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) will be essential, though vaccine hesitancy is a problem. Herein, we report a 4-y-old girl who was seriously bitten by a confirmed rabid dog in rural China. Multiple lacerations and punctures distributed on her head, neck, face, extremities, and back after being bitten. It was in question that surgery or PEP should be performed in priority when the dog was not confirmed rabid at first, but considering the risks of rabies, immediate PEP was provided to her, along with immunogenicity tests to ensure an adequate protective immune response. Because of the severity of her injuries, medical practitioners suggested her parents to bring her to take immunogenicity tests in 1-, 5-, and 10-y intervals to ensure adequate rabies virus-neutralizing antibodies (RVNA) titers. Her parents had a good preference for medical advices, and in the 10-y interval, it was found that her RVNA titer was below protection level, so a booster vaccination was given to her, and 14 d after that, according to immunogenicity test, RVNA titer arose quickly above the protection level.
Background: Rabies is invariably a fatal disease. Appropriate wound treatment and prompt rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) are of great importance to rabies prevention. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence and influencing factors of improper wound treatment and delay of rabies PEP after an animal bite in Wuhan, China.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted among animal bite victims visiting rabies prevention clinics (RPCs). We selected respondents by a multistage sampling technique. A face-to-face interview was conducted to investigate whether the wound was treated properly and the time disparity between injury and attendance to the RPCs. Determinants of improper wound treatment and delay of rabies PEP were identified by a stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis.
Principal findings: In total, 1,015 animal bite victims (564 women and 451 men) responded to the questionnaire, and the response rate was 93.98%. Overall, 81.2% of animal bite victims treated their wounds improperly after suspected rabies exposure, and 35.3% of animal bite victims delayed the initiation of PEP. Males (OR = 1.871, 95% CI: 1.318-2.656), residents without college education (OR = 1.698, 95% CI: 1.203-2.396), participants liking to play with animals (OR = 1.554, 95% CI: 1.089-2.216), and people who knew the fatality of rabies (OR = 1.577, 95% CI: 1.096-2.270), were more likely to treat wounds improperly after an animal bite. Patients aged 15-44 years (OR = 2.324, 95% CI: 1.457-3.707), who were bitten or scratched by a domestic animal (OR = 1.696, 95% CI: 1.103-2.608) and people who knew the incubation period of rabies (OR = 1.844, 95% CI: 1.279-2.659) were inclined to delay the initiation of PEP.
Conclusions: Our investigation shows that improper wound treatment and delayed PEP is common among animal bite victims, although RPCs is in close proximity and PEP is affordable. The lack of knowledge and poor awareness might be the main reason for improper PEP. Educational programs and awareness raising campaigns should be a priority to prevent rabies, especially targeting males, the less educated and those aged 15-44 years.
We report evidence for pathological lesions in a partial skeleton of Lufengosaurus huenei from the Fengjiahe Formation in Yuxi Basin, Yunnan Province, China, which may be attributed to a failed predator attack on this sauropod. The analysis of osseous abnormalities can provide critical insight into palaeo-immunology, behavioural and life history information for dinosaurs, as well as environmental insights into ancient ecosystems1,2,3. A modern understanding of forensic trauma analysis and pathology, as well as pathologies in modern birds, reptiles and mammals provides a platform for identification of similar palaeopathologies in the fossil record. The fundamental principle underlying the inference of palaeopathological conditions from modern comparative analysis is that of uniformitarianism4, and this approach has yielded significant data regarding the expression and response to disease and trauma in the dinosauria. In particular, the fossil record of China has yielded a range of reports of palaeo-bone pathologies including healed bite marks in Sinraptor5, bacterial infection in the fibula of the basal ceratopsian Psittacosaurus6, a healed fracture in the theropod Yangchuanosaurus7, osteoarthritis in the theropods Caudipteryx, Confuciusornis and Microraptor8, tooth loss and alveolar remodeling in Sinosaurus triassicus9, and vertebral fusions in sauropodomorph dinosaurs1. The specimen reported here adds evidence of both bone-pathology, as well as inferred behaviour, to this growing hypodigm of skeletal pathologies.
Given the physical location of the lesion within the thorax, and the relatively exposed nature of the costal margin to external insult, we suggest that the infection may have been initiated by a physical injury, such as a puncture or bite26,33. This suggests that the observed pathological processes arose as the result of a subsequently transferred (acquired) infective agent32,41. If so, the infective process would have been present for an extended period. If the infection extended in different directions with a similar speed42,43, the shape of the bone puncture would reflect the shape of the wound, in this instance a wide blunt opening with a sharpened end. The morphology of the damage suggests that the damage was produced as a result of a tooth or claw incision44. Whilst the large defect may be representative of a remodelled cloaca following localised necrosis (rather than a bite or puncture) we suggest that the size of the defect would preclude this. Such a large cloaca would likely produce a much greater degree of involucrum formation than is expressed here, and we consider it more likely that the primary area of bone loss represents a bite or tooth puncture as a consequence; the general tear-drop shape and overall pattern of the defect is in keeping with the morphology of bite-induced trauma and predatory behaviours recorded elsewhere in the dinosaur fossil record5,45,46,47,48.
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Animal bites are a major public health problem. The more serious the bite wound is, the higher the risk of developing rabies is. This study aimed to investigate the severity of wounds among animal bite victims and identify the influencing factors in Wuhan, China.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1015 animal bite victims visiting rabies prevention clinics. We performed a face-to-face interview to collect information on the exposure category of the bite wound, the type of the offending animal, exposure-to-risk situations, etc. Factors associated with exposure categories were identified by multivariate logistic regression analysis.
This study showed that factors associated with the severity of bite wounds mainly included types of the offending animal, vaccination status of the animal, and knowledge of rabies fatality. Educational programs and awareness-raising campaigns should be provided to decrease severe animal bites, especially targeting pet owners and those with limited rabies knowledge.
Bite injuries range in severity from superficial abrasions, lacerations, and crush wounds to degloving injuries with major tissue loss, sometimes extending to the underlying bone [2]. The more serious the bite wound is, the higher the probability of occurring adverse events is. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies the bite wound into three categories according to its severity and recommends wound treatment and rabies vaccination for category II and category III exposures as well as rabies immunoglobulin administration for category III exposures [6].
China is an endemic country for rabies. Epidemiological data indicated that more than 40 million people were bitten or scratched in China every year [13]. The high prevalence of animal bites in China makes it essential to carry out animal bite researches. The present study aimed to collect information on the exposure category of animal bite victims and identify the influencing factors for the severity of bite wounds. The findings of the current investigation may help in developing and implementing practical strategies to reduce animal bites.
Table 1 presents the characteristics of the 1015 animal bite victims attending the RPCs. Overall, the majority of bite wounds were category III exposures (55.57%), followed by category II exposures (41.18%) and category I exposures (3.25%). The mean age of these victims was 39.72 (standard deviation, 15.93), and 55.67% were female. More than half (56.85%) of respondents liked playing with animals, and 37.64% were hurt by animals at least twice. The most common sites of animal bites were the upper extremities (52.51%), followed by lower extremities (40.49%). Approximately one-third of injuries were attributed to unprovoked aggression (31.72%), followed by excessive play with animals (27.49%) and insufficient preparedness (26.70%), and the remaining 14.09% of the injuries were caused by improper care of animals. About 60% of the biting animals were stray animals or owned by other people, and 40% of animals involved in the injuries were owned by the victims. Of these biting animals, only 391 (38.52%) had previously received rabies vaccination.
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