Figure 1.
A map showing provinces and major cities in Sri Lanka.
Table 1.
Number of rabies positive and negative samples among the total number of samples received at the Medical Research Institute, Sri Lanka between 1999 and 2010.
Table 2.
The percentage of rabies-positive samples in humans, dogs, cats, livestock and wildlife during 12 years.
Table 3.
The annual number of animal rabies cases in all provinces and their respective districts of Sri Lanka.
Table 4.
The numbers of rabies positive and submitted samples during 12 years in all provinces.
Table 5.
The number of rabies positive samples detected by fluorescent antibody test in samples from humans, dogs, cats, wildlife and livestock.
Figure 2.
The annual number of rabies-positive samples from mongooses in Sri Lanka is shown as bar, on the background showing number of samples tested.
Table 6.
The total number of rabies positive samples in different animals during 12 year period.
Figure 3.
The cumulative number of animal rabies cases from 1999 to 2010 is plotted on the map.
Rabies in Sri Lanka is highly prevalent in the districts of Western and Southern provinces. From 2004, rabies was detected in more areas from the eastern part of the country, and from 2007, rabies was detected in the northern district Jaffna. White indicates that no sample was received from this district.
Figure 4.
The cumulative number of wild animal rabies cases from 1999 to 2010 is plotted on the map.
Wild animal rabies cases were mainly in the districts of Western, Southern, and Central provinces. No wild animal rabies cases were detected in other provinces possibly because fewer samples were received by the laboratory. White indicates that no sample was received from those districts.
Figure 5.
The number of submitted samples to confirm rabies and the number of laboratory confirmed human rabies specimens showing an increasing trend from 1999 to 2010 (dotted line and black line).
There was an overall decreasing trend for human deaths from suspect rabies during the same period (gray line).
Table 7.
The annual number of human rabies cases in all provinces and their respective districts of Sri Lanka.