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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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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.
Packer, C., Katie Hampson, Daniel T Haydon, Dobson, A., Magai Kaare, Dobson, Andy, Hampson, K., Packer, Craig, Dobson A., Hampson, Katie, Craig Packer, Packer C., Dushoff, Jonathan, Kaare, M., Dushoff J., Dushoff Jonathan, Haydon, Daniel T., Dobson Andy, Packer Craig, Dushoff, J., Rupprecht, C.E., Cleaveland, S., Jonathan Dushoff, Haydon D.T., Haydon Daniel T, Kaare, Magai, Haydon, D.T, Haydon, D.T., Kaare M., Hampson Katie, Cleaveland S., Cleaveland, Sarah, Sarah Cleaveland, Hampson K., Kaare Magai, Andy Dobson, Cleaveland Sarah   +36 more
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A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania [PDF]

, 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, Mfinanga, S. G. M., Boden, L.A., Kazwala, R. R., Lisa A Boden, Boden, L. A., Cleaveland, C., Laurenson, M.K., Kazwala, Rudovick R., Kazwala, R.R., Cleaveland, Sarah, Sarah Cleaveland, Boden, Lisa, Knobel, D.L., Laurenson, M. Karen, Knobel, D. L., Knobel, Darryn L., Rudovick R Kazwala, Laurenson, M. K., Cleaveland, S., Darryn L Knobel, Kazwala Rudovick R, Laurenson M Karen, Knobel Darryn L, Boden Lisa A, Cleaveland Sarah   +25 more
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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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Improving community coverage of oral cholera mass vaccination campaigns: lessons learned in Zanzibar [PDF]

, 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, Weiss Mitchell G., Schaetti, C., Weiss, M. G., Khatib, A. M., Ahmed M. Khatib (130136), Said M. Ali, Mitchell G Weiss, Hutubessy Raymond, Schaetti Christian, Ahmed M Khatib, Claire-Lise Chaignat (127845), Raymond Hutubessy (130149), Ali, S. M., Khatib Ahmed M., Mitchell G. Weiss, Mitchell G. Weiss (130129), Ahmed M. Khatib, Chaignat Claire-Lise, Ali Said M., Hutubessy, R., Christian Schaetti (130127), Chaignat, C. L., Raymond Hutubessy, Christian Schaetti, Said M Ali, Said M. Ali (130132)   +26 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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Assessment of Dog Owners’ Knowledge on Dog Rabies Vaccination in Rural Communities in Ogun State, Nigeria [PDF]

, 2021
A cross sectional study was designed to assess knowledge of dog owners towards dog rabies vaccination in rural communities in Odeda local government area of Ogun State. A structured questionnaire was administered to 268 dog owners.
Adebowale, O.O., Bankole, N.O., Kehinde, O.O., Awoyomi , O.J.   +3 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, Oluyemisi Akerele, Greg Simpson, Bjorn Reininghaus, Jacques van Rooyen, Darryn Knobel   +5 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, Baig-Ansari, Naila, Aftab Gohar, M., Khan, Rabia M., Javed, Wajiha, Abbas Jaffari, S. Anzal, Mahmood, Qamer, Ahmad, Manzoor, Ullah, Muhammad Rafi, Ahmad, Fiaz, Ahmad, Waqas   +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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