A third person in the United States has survived clinical rabies without having antiviral inoculations immediately after becoming infected. The 8 year old girl, from California was treated at the University of California Davis Children's Hospital.
A new study from Colorado State University has suggested that bat hibernation is vital to the persistence of the rabies virus in bats.
Collaboration between the WHO, the Ministry of health, Punjab and other parties has lead to significant progress towards a joint and comprehensive rabies control strategy for next two years
Dr Loren Adams, a veterinarian from Iowa, relates his experiences of a recent US army mission to Aghanistan that increased rabies awareness and canine vaccination.
International collaboration involving university, government, local development and wildlife conservation organizations has lead to improved canine vaccination and sterilization programmes around wildlife reserves in Uganda.
