Perfil epidemiológico dos atendimentos antirrábicos humanos pós-exposição procedentes de agressões por animais silvestres potenciais transmissores da raiva no estado de Pernambuco, no período de 2011 a 2017

Abstract

Rabies is endemic in the state of Pernambuco with the last case of the disease recorded in 2017, in the city of Recife. Since knowledge about the current epidemiological situation contributes to the establishment of control strategies over the disease in the state, the main objective of the study was to describe and evaluate the profile of notified human anti-rabies care, registered in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2011 to 2017. During the evaluation, 6,363 human anti-rabies consultations were observed and it was possible to analyze the variables collected during the service and relate them to the Technical Norms of Human Rabies Prophylaxis at the Ministry of Health. The results revealed that adult males were the profile most attacked with bite-like exposures and with single predominant lesions. On the aggressor animal, there was an increase in the incidence of aggressions from Chiropterans. It is concluded that the health actions evaluated in this work need to improve control strategies over the wild rabies cycle, with attention to bats, relevant animals in the epidemiological chain of transmission of primary and secondary forms.