Angola Rescue organized a first-of-its-kind rabies-awareness event at a soccer match in Angola. The animal welfare group gathered more than 50 famous artists and public figures to participate in the soccer match and to help educate attendees about animal health and rabies.
Officials at the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh (northeast India) have vaccinated hundreds of stray and local dogs near the park’s perimeter to protect its resident big cat population from deadly canine-transmitted diseases including rabies.
A recent open-access review paper published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases by Veasna Duong and colleagues summarises the different techniques available for the laboratory diagnosis of rabies in animals and humans and goes on to recommend how these techniques should be applied in a variety of settings to best inform rabies control efforts
Fifty education students from Mariano Marcos State University in Laoag City, Illocos Norte in The Philippines participated in the Rabies Educator Certificate (REC) in December 2015. Dr. Eva Macugay, biology professor, conducted this rabies awareness campaign with her students after taking the REC herself and continues to encourage others to take the REC.
A team of international rabies experts spoke at the Symposium on Human Rabies Prevention and Treatment on October 9, 2015, as a part of the Rabies in the Americas (RITA) conference. The presentations were broadcast globally as a webinar, providing continuous education credits and extending the benefits of the international conference in real time to many public health professionals around the globe.
The Sikkim Anti-Rabies and Animal Health (SARAH) program is a state-wide animal birth control (ABC) and anti-rabies (AR) program initiated in 2005. The program has been very successful at eliminating dog-mediated rabies, with no human deaths from rabies since 2006.
A round-up of recent research most relevant to GARC's mission
While high vaccination coverage is clearly important, other factors, such as gaps in coverage, dog movement patterns, and local rabies awareness, could also influence control efforts. Identifying these factors is crucial for the design of effective elimination programmes.
Dr. Fekadu, a native of Ethiopia, is best known for his work in rabies research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US and his public health efforts at the World Health Organization and the Clinton Foundation.
GARC expresses its sadness at the news of the death of Dr. Shampur Madhusudana on the 2nd December 2015.
