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When you think about travel vaccines, you might think about ones for typhoid or cholera. But there are others you need to think about too.
How to stay safe from rabies on your next trip.
Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus is serious but extraordinarily rare, and there are effective treatments. So there’s no need to panic.
About 4% of dogs and 12% of cats remain unvaccinated against rabies, posing risks for society.
Two rabies epidemics in animals spurred a state health emergency in Texas and a program that oversees annual mass wildlife vaccination. Millions of doses have been distributed since the ‘90s.
The African wild dog has been left without habitat to naturally disperse and breed. Scientists will set up the first-ever sperm bank to inseminate wild dogs and ensure that the species survives.
An unexpected case of rabies found in an animal can raise concerns for a potential outbreak. Proactive vaccination of both wildlife and people can help protect everyone.
Animals, including the ones that live in our homes, can carry all kinds of illnesses. Most of the time it’s not a problem, but here’s what you should do to avoid getting sick.
On World Rabies Day – which is also the anniversary of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur’s death – a virologist reflects on the achievements of this visionary scientist.
Allowing cats to roam unsupervised is detrimental to humans, wildlife and the cats themselves. Managing free-roaming cats should consider the risks they pose to other species.
Kenya should improve access to life saving vaccines, and train healthcare workers on patient management and best practices.
The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
Domestic dogs have been shown to be the only species necessary to maintain rabies across most of Africa. This means that dog vaccination should control the disease in all species.
The world is in the grip of a new pandemic which sets back the fight against rabies.
In Kenya, rabies is estimated to kill up to 2,000 people every year.
Fear of a disease that seemed to turn people into beasts might have inspired belief in supernatural beings that live on in today’s creepy Halloween costumes.
Rabies is almost always fatal once the symptoms appear. It is also completely preventable, so long as you know how to protect yourself.
Health authorities have raised the alarm after several cases of human rabies were reported in a space of four months.
Pets give us a lot of joy … and sometimes a few diseases.
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Professor of Disease Ecology and Public Health, University of Glasgow
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
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Affiliate Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University
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Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Paediatrician & Infectious Diseases Physician; Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
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Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
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Research scientist, University of Oxford
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Research Associate, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Conservation Biology, Deputy Director of the WildCRU, University of Oxford
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Public Health Physician and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health, UNSW
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Professor of Veterinary Health Informatics, University of Liverpool