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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 +9 more
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Response to a rabies epidemic in Bali, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2013 Emergency vaccinations and culling failed to contain an outbreak of rabies in Bali, Indonesia, during 2008–2009. Subsequent island-wide mass vaccination (reaching 70% coverage, >200,000 dogs) led to substantial declines in rabies incidence and spread.
Girardi, J. +7 more
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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 +11 more
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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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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 +5 more
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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 +5 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 +6 more
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Mass Dog Vaccination and Animal Birth Control: A One Health Pilot Project in Karachi, Pakistan
, 2023 The Sindh province in Southern Pakistan reports staggering numbers of dog bites. Not only to treat but to prevent, dog-bite casualties, in January 2018, the Indus Hospital launched a proof of concept of One Health. The pilot project ‘Rabies Free Pakistan’ (RFP) consisted of the performance of mass dog vaccination (MDV) and animal birth control (ABC) in
Salahuddin, Naseem +10 more
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Review of Rabies Preventions and Control [PDF]
, 2017 Rabies is an acute viral infection of the central nervous system, caused by a lyssavirus in the family Rhabdoviridae. It is zoonotic viral disease that can affect all mammals, including humans, cats, dogs, and wildlife and farm animals.
Abdela, N. (Nejash) +1 more
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The demography of free-roaming dog populations and applications to disease and population control [PDF]
, 2014 Understanding the demography of domestic dog populations is essential for effective disease control, particularly of canine-mediated rabies. Demographic data are also needed to plan effective population management.
Cleaveland, Sarah +9 more
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