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Figure 3. Evolution of cases of aggression by animals suspected of rabies by department from 2017 to the 7th week of the year 2023 [24] .

MONITORING RESULTS
According to the case definition, the results of the Rabies case status by animal species and department
Haiti (January 2013 - December 2017).

Showed that:
• 222 animals (2.4%) were classified as confirmed rabies cases;
• 455 (4.9%) as probable rabies cases;
• 1,666 (17.8%) as suspected rabies cases;
• 6,969 (74.6%) as discarded cases .
[9]

Of the confirmed rabid animals, 217 (97.7%) were dogs, 5 (2.2%) were cats and 3 (1.3%) were farm animals.

Animals considered probable included 412 dogs (90.5%), 27 cats (5.9%), and 16 farm animals (3.7%). The
majority of animal investigations during the five years were conducted in the West department (n = 4,204),
followed by the Center department (n = 1,688), the Artibonite department (n = 1,032), the South
department (n = 747) and the North department. (n = 612). The other five departments (South-East, Nippes,
Grand’Anse, North-East, and Nord-West) accounted for a total of 77 (0.9%) animal rabies investigations
because they did not have any veterinarians assigned to the HARSP responsible for the task of rabies
epidemiological surveillance of animal rabies . Under such conditions, it proved difficult to calculate
[9]
correct rabies prevalence and incidence rates at the national level.

The animal rabies investigations were 8,373 heads reported from different sources, as indicated in Table 1 .
[9]

The number of Human exposures to rabies-suspected animals by case status and species in Haiti from
January 2013 to December 2017 is 9,342, as indicated in Table 2 [9,24] .

From 2017 to 2023, according to the reports from the Veterinary Services, animal notification activities were
quite intense for the year 2018, with 4,013 notified cases. They were relatively lower compared to the year