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.
A study by Dr Nday Mwenze has recently been published on the extent and nature of rabies cases in the town of Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dr. Victor J. Cabasso, a pioneer virologist and immunologist died on February 28th 2012, at the age of 96.
A rabid puppy recently imported from Morocco to the Netherlands highlights how far dogs infected with rabies can travel with human help.
A commercial flight from Wisconsin to Georgia in the USA carrying a bat prompted a risk assessment for rabies exposures.
The new TravelRabNet seeks to provide reliable and up-to-date information on the supplies of rabies biologicals around the world.
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Nerve tissue vaccines for rabies control have served their purpose for more than 100 years, but tissue-culture technology developed a few decades ago has completely revolutionalized vaccine production and changed the concept of biological testing.
