| analysis of an outbreak of human rabies in 2009 in hanzhong district, shaanxi province, china. | between march and august 2009, there was an outbreak of rabies in both humans and dogs in hanzhong district, shaanxi province, china. about 7300 humans were bitten by dogs and 20 died of rabies due to failure to perform postexposure prophylaxis. the local authorities therefore conducted a dog slaughter campaign. from a random selection of brains of dogs culled in the campaign, 0/27 tested positive for rabies virus by immunofluorescence. of two dogs known to have bitten humans, one was shown to c ... | 2011 | 20491584 |