Professor Sarah Cleaveland OBE FRS was awarded the 2018 Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture by the UK’s Royal Society for her pioneering work towards the elimination of rabies throughout the world.
Wild animals living near humans often interact with local dog populations and can modulate the threat of rabies—sometimes in unexpected ways—but the influence of wildlife on rabies transmission to domestic animals and people can be diminished by a fully vaccinated domestic dog population.
Au Népal, les autorités de Katmandou ont développé une nouvelle approche de la gestion des chiens de rue et du contrôle de la rage en en transférant la responsabilité à la plus petite unité administrative locale, le quartier.
Des campagnes de vaccination dans la ville entière de N'Djamena, capitale du Tchad, et un modèle déterministe basé sur des données épidémiologiques ont montré qu'il est possible d'éliminer la rage en Afrique.
Le premier anticorps monoclonal mis au point pour remplacer l’immunoglobuline antirabique (IGR), composante de la prophylaxie antirabique post-exposition (PPE) est désormais disponible en Inde.
Une sélection d’articles correspondant aux missions de GARC
In Nepal, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) authority has developed a novel approach to street dog management and rabies control by devolving responsibility to the smallest unit of local government – the ward.
A round-up of recent research news most relevant to GARC's mission.
Citywide vaccination campaigns in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad, and a deterministic model based on epidemiological data have demonstrated that rabies elimination can be achieved in Africa.
The first monoclonal antibody product developed to replace the rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) component of rabies post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is now available across India.
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