The OIE, with the support of its subregional representation in Bangkok (Thailand), is currently managing a rabies vaccine bank in Asia with the financial support of the European Union.
Information translated into Innu-aimun is helping First Nations people in Labrador in Canada understand the risk of rabies.
A new edition of a book that focuses on the human and dog relationship, and its impact on human society and health will soon be available.
This summer has seen a number of people innocently enjoying the water in the north eastern US attacked by an unusual threat of rabid beavers.
The Indian government proposes to make rabies a priority disease for control under the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017).
A new paper based on the Million Death Study estimates country-wide death rates from rabies.
This year, WRD events in Yemen hosted by the Yemen Organization for the Protection of Animals (YOPA) sought to improve awareness and work towards a better rabies control a strategy for the country.
A new popular science book by a journalist and veterinarian team focuses on the impact and fear that rabies has exerted on communities for over 4,000 years
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.