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Renewed global partnerships and redesigned roadmaps for rabies prevention and control [PDF]

, 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.
Attlan, Michael, Bourhy, Hervé, Briggs, Deborah J., Cleaveland, Sarah, Costa, Peter, de Balogh, Katinka, Dodet, Betty, Fooks, Anthony R., Hiby, Elly, Leanes, Fernando, Lembo, Tiziana, Meslin, François-Xavier, Miranda, Mary Elizabeth, Müller, Thomas, Nel, Louis H., Rupprecht, Charles E., Tordo, Noel, Tumpey, Abbigail, Wandeler, Alexander   +18 more
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Development of Dog Vaccination Strategies to Maintain Herd Immunity against Rabies

Viruses, 2022
Human rabies can be prevented through mass dog vaccination campaigns; however, in rabies endemic countries, pulsed central point campaigns do not always achieve the recommended coverage of 70%.
Ahmed Lugelo, Katie Hampson, Elaine A. Ferguson, Anna Czupryna, Machunde Bigambo, Christian Tetteh Duamor, Rudovick Kazwala, Paul C. D. Johnson, Felix Lankester   +8 more
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Transmission dynamics and prospects for the elimination of canine rabies [PDF]

, 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.
Cleaveland, S., Dobson, A., Dushoff, J., Hampson, K., Haydon, D.T, Kaare, M., Packer, C., Rupprecht, C.E.   +7 more
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Determinants of dog owner-charged rabies vaccination in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Rabies is a preventable fatal disease that causes about 61,000 human deaths annually around the world, mostly in developing countries. In Africa, several studies have shown that vaccination of pets is effective in controlling the disease.
Eric Kawaya Kazadi, Georges Mbuyi Tshilenge, Victor Mbao, Zakariaou Njoumemi, Justin Masumu   +4 more
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Filter Papers to Collect Blood Samples from Dogs: An Easier Way to Monitor the Mass Vaccination Campaigns against Rabies?

Viruses, 2022
Rabies is a deadly viral disease present mainly in low-income countries of Africa and Asia. Dogs are the main reservoir and the source of human deaths. Mass vaccination campaigns of dogs are pivotal to achieve rabies elimination. The monitoring of the immune response of the dog population is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of these campaigns ...
Marine Wasniewski, Jacques Barrat, Samia Ben Maiez, Habib Kharmachi, Mariem Handous, Florence Cliquet   +5 more
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Implementing Pasteur's vision for rabies elimination: the evidence base and the needed policy actions [PDF]

, 2014
It has been 129 years since Louis Pasteur's experimental protocol saved the life of a child mauled by a rabid dog, despite incomplete understanding of the etiology or mechanisms by which the miracle cure worked (1).
Cleaveland, Sarah, Hampson, Katie, Lankester, Felix, Lembo, Tiziana, Palmer, Guy, Taylor, Louise   +5 more
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Cost-estimate and proposal for a development impact bond for canine rabies elimination by mass vaccination in Chad [PDF]

, 2017
Close to 69,000 humans die of rabies each year, most of them in Africa and Asia. Clinical rabies can be prevented by post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). However, PEP is commonly not available or not affordable in developing countries.
Alfaroukh, Idriss Oumar, Anyiam, Franziska, Coleman, Paul G., Lechenne, Monique, Mbilo, Celine, Mindekem, Rolande, Moto, Daugla Doumagoum, Naissengar, Service, Oussigéré, Assandi, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Zinsstag, Jakob   +10 more
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Effectiveness of Mass Rabies Dog Vaccination Campaign in Communes V and VI of the Bamako-Mali, District [PDF]

International Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 2019
Canine rabies remains an important public health problem in Africa. Mass vaccination of dogs is the recommended method for the control and elimination of rabies. We report the second free mass vaccination campaign of the dog in the communes V and VI of the district of Bamako that took place in September 2014.
Ibrahim Sow, Yaya Sidi Koné, Kadiatou Coulibaly, Marthin Dakouo, Satigui Sidibé, Amadou Hamadoun Babana, Hamadoun Babana   +6 more
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Landscape attributes governing local transmission of an endemic zoonosis: rabies virus in domestic dogs [PDF]

, 2018
Landscape heterogeneity plays an important role in disease spread and persistence, but quantifying landscape influences and their scale dependence is challenging.
Biek, Roman, Brunker, Kirstyn, Fooks, Anthony R., Hampson, Katie, Lemey, Philippe, Lugelo, Ahmed, Marston, Denise A., Ngeleja, Chanasa   +7 more
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Awareness of rabies and response to dog bites in a Bangladesh community [PDF]

, 2016
Community awareness regarding rabies and treatment seeking behaviours are critical both for the prevention and control of the disease in human and animals.
Ahmed, Be-Nazir, B. Hossain, Muhammad, C. Debnath, Nitish, Chowdhury, Sukanta, Ghosh, Sumon, Haider, Najmul, K. Bhowmik, Rajub, S. Prue Marma, Aung, S. Rana, Md.   +8 more
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