Author(s)

Abdel Kader Traoré^1,2,3,4, Assétou Soukho Kaya¹, Ousmane Koné^2,4,5, Youssouf Fofana^2,6, Mamadou Cissoko^1,2, Zakaria Kéïta², Makan Fofana^2,7, Aïchatou Margueritte Diarra⁸

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Universitary Hospital of Point G, Bamako, Mali.
²RIWA/REAO/MALI, Rabies in West Africa (RIWA), Mali.
³RIWA/REAO, INTERNATIONAL, Rabies in West Africa (RIWA), Mali.
⁴PARACON, Pan-African Rabies Control Network, Bamako, Mali.
⁵Service of Epidemiology-Department of Comunotary Health, National Institute of Public Health, INRSP, Bamako, Mali.
⁶Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Mother-Child Luxembourg, Bamako, Mali.
⁷Disease Prevention and Control Division, National Directorate of Health, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Bamako, Mali.
⁸Management of Small and Medium Enterprises, Bamako, Mali.

From 2007 to 2017 sixty-three (63) new cases of human rabies have been identified in Mali on an estimated total population in 2017 of 17,650,195 inhabitants. This is an incidence of 0.32 cases for 100,000 inhabitants. All these cases occurred in urban areas and involved the two sexes. The age group most affected was the one less than 20 years old. The majority of the victims (73.1%) were pre-schools, school-aged pupils and housewives. In 97% of the cases, the animal in question was a dog and the type of exposure of the bite. Eighty-two percent (82%) of the victims had received no local medical treatment or the post exposure quasi prophylaxis treatment. The median duration between the first symptoms and death among the cases of human rabies was 3 to 7 days. The median duration between the occurrence of the first signs and death was four (4) days. No virological confirmation had been conducted on the patients. The rage disease is retained as a priority disease, since the adoption of the strategy of “integrated monitoring of the disease and response” in 2008. However, in spite of the efforts made, progress still remains to be effected to assess the actual impact of rabies in Mali.

Rabies, Urban Area, Mali

Traoré, A. , Kaya, A. , Koné, O. , Fofana, Y. , Cissoko, M. , Kéïta, Z. , Fofana, M. and Diarra, A. (2019) Human Rabies Still Exists in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Mali—National Data-Base Analysis of the Capital of Mali from 2007 to 2017. Open Journal of Internal Medicine, 9, 19-25. doi: 10.4236/ojim.2019.92004.