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Evaluation of the immune response of dogs after a mass vaccination campaign against rabies in Tunisia

BMC Veterinary Research, 2023
Abstract Background Rabies (RABV) is an enzootic disease in Tunisia, with dogs being the primary reservoir. Vaccinating dogs is the key to eradicate rabies. Regional Veterinary Services conduct nationwide immunisation campaigns on an annual basis. Evaluation of the immune response is still important to make sure that the
Mariem Handous, Imed Turki, Abdejelil Ghram, Samia BenMaiz, Jihen Bensalem, Nourhene Basdouri, Mohamed Soltani, Farah Bassalah, Habib Kharmachi   +8 more
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Policy Perspectives of Dog-Mediated Rabies Control in Resource-Limited Countries: The Ethiopian Situation

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
One Health disease-control programs are believed to be most effective when implemented within the population transmitting the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have targeted the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 ...
Tariku Jibat Beyene, Monique Mourits, Jeanette O'Quin, Samson Leta, Joaquin Baruch, Henk Hogeveen   +5 more
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Cost-effectiveness of the national dog rabies prevention and control program in Mexico, 1990-2015.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
BackgroundRabies is a viral zoonosis that imposes a substantial disease and economic burden in many developing countries. Dogs are the primary source of rabies transmission; eliminating dog rabies reduces the risk of exposure in humans significantly ...
Jesús Felipe González-Roldán, Eduardo A Undurraga, Martin I Meltzer, Charisma Atkins, Fernando Vargas-Pino, Verónica Gutiérrez-Cedillo, José Ramón Hernández-Pérez   +6 more
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Strategies to inTerrupt RAbies Transmission for the Elimination Goal by 2030 In China (STRATEGIC): a modelling study

BMC Medicine, 2023
Background A global plan has been set to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030 ("Zero-by-30"), but whether it could be achieved in some countries, such as China, remains unclear.
Qiulan Chen, Qiuping Liu, Chao Gong, Wenwu Yin, Di Mu, Yu Li, Shujun Ding, Yifang Liu, Hao Yang, Shuwu Zhou, Sa Chen, Zhongfa Tao, Yanping Zhang, Xun Tang   +13 more
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Dog Ecology, Bite Incidence, and Disease Awareness: A Cross-Sectional Survey among a Rabies-Affected Community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Vaccines, 2019
Despite the existence of safe and efficacious human and animal rabies vaccines, millions of people remain at risk of exposure to this deadly zoonotic disease through bites of infected dogs.
Céline Mbilo, Jean-Baptiste Kabongo, Pati Patient Pyana, Léon Nlonda, Raymond Williams Nzita, Bobo Luntadila, Badivé Badibanga, Jan Hattendorf, Jakob Zinsstag   +8 more
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Reviewing Solutions of Scale for Canine Rabies Elimination in India

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
Canine rabies elimination can be achieved through mass vaccination of the dog population, as advocated by the WHO, OIE and FAO under the ‘United Against Rabies’ initiative.
Andrew D. Gibson, Ryan M. Wallace, Abdul Rahman, Omesh K. Bharti, Shrikrishna Isloor, Frederic Lohr, Luke Gamble, Richard J. Mellanby, Alasdair King, Michael J. Day   +9 more
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Assessing Impacting Factors of Dog Owners’ Adoption of Dog Vaccination Against Rabies: A Cross-sectional Survey in Rural Areas — Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 2021

China CDC Weekly, 2021
What is already known about this topic? Rabies is fatal while preventable. More than 99% of human rabies cases were caused by dog bites worldwide. Mass dog vaccination could interrupt dog-mediated rabies if achieving and maintaining a minimum coverage ...
N. Chen, Qiulan Chen, Yanping Zhang, Mantong Zhu, W. Yin, D. Mu, Yu Li, Yingjie Chen, Yidan Deng, Xianyan Tang   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Oral bait handout as a method to access roaming dogs for rabies vaccination in Goa, India: A proof of principle study

Vaccine: X, 2019
Rabies has profound public health, social and economic impacts on developing countries, with an estimated 59,000 annual human rabies deaths globally. Mass dog vaccination is effective at eliminating the disease but remains challenging to achieve in India
A.D. Gibson, G. Yale, A. Vos, J. Corfmat, I. Airikkala-Otter, A. King, R.M. Wallace, L. Gamble, I.G. Handel, R.J. Mellanby, B.M. de C. Bronsvoort, S. Mazeri   +11 more
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Zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030: perspectives from quantitative and mathematical modelling [version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Gates Open Research, 2020
Dog-mediated rabies continues to kill tens of thousands of people every year in low- and middle-income countries despite being an entirely vaccine-preventable disease.
WHO Rabies Modelling Consortium
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Population Dynamics of Owned, Free-Roaming Dogs: Implications for Rabies Control. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
BACKGROUND:Rabies is a serious yet neglected public health threat in resource-limited communities in Africa, where the virus is maintained in populations of owned, free-roaming domestic dogs.
Anne Conan, Oluyemisi Akerele, Greg Simpson, Bjorn Reininghaus, Jacques van Rooyen, Darryn Knobel   +5 more
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