Rabies control
In this section you can find useful information relating to rabies and rabies control
The Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC) was created to alleviate the burden of rabies across the world by promoting and implementing rabies control, prevention and education programmes whilst accounting for animal welfare and conservation issues.
Approximately 55,000 people die of rabies each year in Asia and Africa, and children are particularly at risk from this terrible disease - around 100 children die of rabies every day. These are wasted lives, as rabies is a disease for which all the tools for control are available.
World Rabies Day, which is now held on 28 September every year, aims to raise awareness of this terrible disease and to promote the prevention of rabies.
The BVA Overseas Group is supporting World Rabies Day by asking UK veterinary surgeons to promote understanding of this devastating but preventable disease in their practices and has produced some information for vets to share with clients and staff.
8 September 2007 was designated the first World Rabies Day to which The Veterinary Record contributed by carrying a number of articles discussing the thinking behind the initiative, and the role that veterinarians can play in tackling the disease worldwide.
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