The 9th annual AREB meeting was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and discussed the regional rabies situation, as well as strategies to achieve elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies and how to implement them.
A recent World Health Organization (WHO) International Expert Consultation on rabies urged countries where canine rabies is endemic to initiate and strengthen their rabies prevention and control activities, and to increase the level of awareness about the disease, particularly among children.
A new study by Daniel Streicker of the University of Georgia and colleagues suggests that culling of vampire bats is not only failing to eliminate rabies, but may be making the situation worse
A newly published study suggests that some people living in two Amazon communities in Peru survived being exposed to rabies virus without receiving vaccination.
A short paper in World Journal of Vaccines, describes how the barriers to more widespread use of the ID route were addressed in setting up the first ID rabies vaccination clinic in North-West India.
In March 2012, Embark, a community and animal welfare project based in Sri Lanka celebrated their 5th year.
On World Rabies Day 2011, a new rabies treatment centre was opened in Mandritsara, Madagascar.
The control of canine rabies across Latin America is the largest-scale recent success story in rabies control, and international agreements have been key to its success.
A British national, who contracted rabies during a visit to India earlier this year, is in hospital in London
A 9 year old boy died of rabies acquired from a marmoset in Brazil.
