Table 1 Suspected animal rabies case investigations, Haiti 2018–2023 (66 months).

From: Higher free-roaming dog density sustains rabies virus transmission in Haiti

Urbanization level

Community type

High risk+

Moderate risk+

Low risk+

Negligible risk+

Total

n**

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

 

1.1

Urban

731 (19)

17%

167

4%

694

16%

2,669

63%

4,261

1.2

Urban

0%

2

5%

28

64%

14

32%

44

1.3

Urban

0%

0%

3

33%

6

67%

9

1.4

Urban

 

 

 

 

2.1

Urban

237 (29)

7%

292

8%

1,089

30%

1,969

55%

3,587

2.2

Urban

41 (1)

5%

32

4%

168

22%

507

68%

748

Urban total

1,009 (49)

12%

493

6%

1,982

23%

5,165

59%

8,649

2.3

Peri-urban

83 (3)

11%

85

11%

280

38%

293

40%

741

2.4

Peri-urban

0%

0%

7

47%

8

53%

15

3.1

Peri-urban

29 (10)

8%

22

6%

158

41%

176

46%

385

3.2

Peri-urban

12 (2)

5%

10

4%

88

37%

125

53%

235

3.3

Peri-urban

47 (7)

4%

77

7%

492

44%

501

45%

1,117

3.4

Peri-urban

13 (2)

3%

18

4%

147

34%

252

59%

430

Peri-urban total

184 (24)

6%

212

7%

1,172

40%

1,355

47%

2,923

4.1

Rural

-

0%

-

0%

7

35%

13

65%

20

4.2

Rural

1 (1)

4%

1

4%

11

39%

15

54%

28

4.3

Rural

-

0%

1

2%

24

49%

24

49%

49

4.4

Rural

3 (1)

2%

3

2%

56

44%

66

52%

128

5.1

Very rural

0%

0%

5

100%

0%

5

5.2

Very rural

 

 

 

 

5.3

Very rural

0%

0%

1

25%

3

75%

4

5.4

Very rural

0%

0%

1

33%

2

67%

3

Rural total

4 (2)***

2%

5

2%

105

44%

123

52%

237

Total

 

1,197 (75)

10%

710

6%

3,259

28%

6,643

56%

11,809

  1. +high-risk, moderate risk, low risk and negligible risk animals were determined based on rabies probability classification model (Extreme Gradient Boosting) as published in Keshavamurthy et al. 2024. *910 investigations did not include location data and were removed from analysis (3.7% of all investigations). **(n) are the number of laboratory-confirmed animals within the high risk group. ***Confirmed sample from 4.2 was located 0.18 km from a peri-urban community. Confirmed sample 4.4 was located 0.32 km from a peri-urban community. A map showing the location of these confirmed cases in relation to STARC categories can be found in supplemental Figure S2 . Statistically significant values (< 0.05) are in bold.