Monitoreo epidemiológico de accidente rábico mediante análisis estadístico univariante en san José de Cúcuta en el año 2019.

Abstract

The aggressions of potentially transmitting animals of the rabies virus in Colombia have been reported by the surveillance systems, at the departmental and municipal level, these data have been recorded on the SIVIGILA platform. Rabies considered a zoonosis which is due to neurotropic viruses of the Rhabdoviridae family. The main form of transmission of the rabies virus occurs when there is a bite or a deep scratch from an animal that is infected with the rabies virus. The main objective of this work was to characterize the patients who have had rabies accidents in the municipality of Cúcuta based on the Public Health Surveillance System. The study variables were those related to the person attacked, the injury and the aggressor animal. Descriptive statistics application by univariate method. For the year 2,019, 1,682 files from the National Institute of Health (INS) reported to the Public Health Surveillance System of Colombia (SIVIGILA) were found. The percentage of greater number of aggressions was evidenced in the age group of 15 to 44 years of age (33.9%). According to sex, a percentage of aggressions was reported in men (50.6%). In health, a greater number of cases was found in people belonging to the subsidized health regime with (49.5%). Regarding the stratum, most of the cases, those affected were found in stage 2, this being (59.5%). %), The type of injury that occurred the most was the single dog injury, with (69.7%), It was found that it was the animal species which caused the highest number of aggressions with 84.5% in relation to the cat which caused 15.5% of all cases.