A One Health message about bats increases intentions to follow public health guidance on bat rabies

• Main Authors: LU, Hang, McComas, Katherine A., BUTTKE, Danielle E., Sungjong ROH, WILD, Margaret A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Animals; Wild Animals; Rabies; Chiroptera; Conservation of Natural Resources; Female; Health Knowledge; Attitudes; Humans; United States; Business and Corporate Communications; Health Communication; Life Sciences; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5040; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6039/viewcontent/a_one_health_message_about_bats.PDF
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Since 1960, bat rabies variants have become the greatest source of human rabies deaths in the United States. Improving rabies awareness and preventing human exposure to rabid bats remains a national public health priority today. Concurrently, conservation of bats and the ecosystem benefits they prov...