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The feasibility of canine rabies elimination in Africa: dispelling doubts with data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
<p><b>Background:</b> Canine rabies causes many thousands of human deaths every year in Africa, and continues to increase throughout much of the continent.</p> <p><b>Methodology/Principal Findings:</b> This ...
Katie Hampson   +29 more
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Transmission dynamics and prospects for the elimination of canine rabies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Rabies has been eliminated from domestic dog populations in Western Europe and North America, but continues to kill many thousands of people throughout Africa and Asia every year.
Packer, C.   +36 more
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A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs, and of the factors associated with dog ownership, is important for the planning and ...
M Karen Laurenson   +20 more
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Improving community coverage of oral cholera mass vaccination campaigns: lessons learned in Zanzibar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
BACKGROUND: Recent research in two cholera-endemic communities of Zanzibar has shown that a majority (?94%) of the adult population was willing to receive free oral cholera vaccines (OCVs). Since OCV uptake in the 2009 campaign reached only ?50% in these
Claire-Lise Chaignat   +26 more
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Dog Population Rabies Immunity before a Mass Vaccination Campaign in Lima, Peru: Vulnerabilities for Virus Reestablishment

open access: yesThe American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023
ABSTRACT. Lima, Peru, has not had a case of canine rabies since 1999. However, Lima remains at risk of rabies reintroduction due to the free movement of dogs from nearby rabies-endemic areas. In Latin America, rabies vaccination campaigns must reach 80% of dogs to halt transmission, but estimates of vaccine coverage are often unavailable, unreliable ...
Chuquista Alcarraz, Olimpia   +7 more
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Evidence-based control of canine rabies: a critical review of population density reduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Control measures for canine rabies include vaccination and reducing population density through culling or sterilization. Despite the evidence that culling fails to control canine rabies, efforts to reduce canine population density continue in many parts
Boots, M.   +6 more
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Data_Sheet_1_Participation in mass dog vaccination campaigns in Tanzania: Benefits of community engagement.docx

open access: yes, 2022
BackgroundCanine rabies causes about 59,000 human deaths each year globally but the disease can be eliminated by sustaining sufficient dog vaccination coverage over several consecutive years. A challenge to achieving high coverage is low participation of
Katharina Kreppel (344194)   +8 more
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Estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies circulating in domestic dog populations, globally and on a country-by-country basis, allowing
Schumacher, Carolin   +87 more
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Evaluation of cost-effective strategies for rabies post-exposure vaccination in low-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
<b>Background:</b> Prompt post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is essential in preventing the fatal onset of disease in persons exposed to rabies.
Hampson Katie   +8 more
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Renewed global partnerships and redesigned roadmaps for rabies prevention and control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Canine rabies, responsible for most human rabies deaths, is a serious global public health concern. This zoonosis is entirely preventable, but by focusing solely upon rabies prevention in humans, this "incurable wound" persists at high costs.
Wandeler, Alexander   +63 more
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