![]() ![]() Between 20, more than 20,000 cases of rabies-transmitting animal bites per year were reported, while canine and feline rabies cases remain under control and have been reduced by up to 90%. Human rabies is currently under control, an average of ten cases per year was reported between 19, with a reduction of approximately three cases per year between 19, no more cases have been recorded since then. In El Salvador, rabies is controlled in domestic animals through vaccination, but it is considered as a health hazard because the virus is present in the environment through wild animals, the rabies virus has been isolated from hematophagous and insectivorous bat, and elimination of bat rabies is not feasible. Between 20, the Global Alliance for Rabies Control reported a total of 10 deaths from rabies related to dog bites and 23 due to rabies in other species in Latin America. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 99% of rabies cases are related to dog bites. The main form of exposure to rabies is by the biting of animals infected with the virus. However, the number of cases and human deaths have decreased by about 98%, since a regional program for the control of rabies in dogs was implemented in 1983. Between January 2015 and September 2021, 11 countries from Latin America reported cases of rabies (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela). Rabies deaths are responsible for 3.7 million disability-adjusted life years each year. Rabies is an infectious disease with the highest case-fatality ratio once clinical signs appear, the disease is almost inevitably fatal. Rabies is a viral zoonosis considered a neglected tropical disease, prevalent in developing countries and, associated with poverty and lack of adequate sanitary conditions. Around 60,000 people die from rabies each year worldwide, most of them occur in Africa and Asia where the access to health attention is limited. It had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 4.05/10, ranking it 136th globally out of 172 countries.Cases of bites from animals suspected of being rabid are a burden on primary care, mainly in low income countries. Foremost among these is SalvaNatura, which manages El Impossible, the country's largest national park under an agreement with El Salvador's environmental authorities.Įl Salvador is home to six terrestrial ecosystems: Central American montane forests, Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests, Central American dry forests, Central American pine-oak forests, Gulf of Fonseca mangroves, and Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves. ![]() Several non-governmental organizations are doing work to safeguard some of the country's most important forested areas. Recent conservation efforts provide hope for the future of the country's biological diversity. There are eight species of sea turtles in the world six of them nest on the coasts of Central America, and four make their home on the Salvadoran coast: the leatherback turtle, the hawksbill, the green sea turtle, and the olive ridley. It is estimated that there are 500 species of birds, 1,000 species of butterflies, 400 species of orchids, 800 species of trees, and 800 species of marine fish in El Salvador. The country's population in 2021 is estimated to be 6.8 million. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador is a country in Central America.
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