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Rabies around the World

Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2020) CC

Each year, rabies causes approximately 59,000 deaths worldwide. Despite evidence that control of dog rabies through animal vaccination programs and elimination of stray dogs can reduce the incidence of human rabies, dog rabies remains common in many countries and exposure to rabid dogs is still the ... more

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Can India finally eliminate rabies? A state-level study from Goa offers hopeful signs

Prabhu, M. Vaccines Work (2022) CC

For more than 100 years, the clearest route to elimination of dog-mediated rabies has been via mass vaccination of the animal hosts. It’s worked in plenty of countries. Still, in others, like India, which grapples with a third of the world’s rabies burden, large populations of free-roaming, hard... more

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Rabies & One Health: From basics to cross-sectoral action to stop human rabies deaths

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease most often transmitted to people via bites from infected dogs. This course provides a general introduction to rabies, and the One Health approach currently taken to prevent it. It consists of seven video-lectures, demonstration videos, and lessons learnt from peopl... more

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Rabies Frequently Asked Questions

National Institute for Communicable Disease NICD (2021) CC

Rabies is a zoonotic, vaccine-preventable viral disease that causes damage to the brain and spinal cord in infected animals and humans. A zoonotic disease is a disease that can be transmitted between animals and humans. Rabies is nearly 100% fatal once symptoms appear.

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Rabies Vaccine

Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2014) CC

A regimen of four 1-mL doses of HDCV or PCEC vaccines should be administered intramuscularly to previously unvaccinated persons. The first dose of the four-dose course should be administered as soon as possible after exposure. Additional doses should be administered on days 3, 7, and 14 after the... more

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Rabies - our time to act is now

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

Rabies is an infectious viral disease that is almost always fatal once clinical symptoms appear. In most cases, the disease is transmitted to humans by the bite of a rabid dog, but infection can also spread through scratches or via saliva. Rabies kills one person every 9 minutes and children aged ... more

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All abaout Rabies

Department of Health and Environmental Control (2022) CC

Rabies is a virus (Lyssavirus) that infects cells in the central nervous system, causing disease in the brain and, ultimately, death. Any animal with rabies has the ability to transmit the disease to humans or other animals. There is no cure for rabies, but it is 100 percent preventable through ... more

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Rabies Educational Material

Department of Health and Environmental Control dhec (2022) CC

Rabies is transmitted when saliva or neural tissue of an infected animal is introduced into the body. Exposure can occur through a bite, scratch, or contact with saliva to broken skin or mucous membranes such as the eyes or mouth, BUT rabies is preventable! Vaccinations for your pets and livestock a... more

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Rabies Facts Dos and Don'ts

Department of Health and Environmental Control dhec (2022) CC

There is no cure for rabies, but it is 100 percent preventable through prompt, appropriate medical care. Every year hundreds of South Carolinians must undergo preventive treatment for rabies due to exposure to a rabid or suspected rabid animal. Although the cost varies, post-exposure treatment typic... more

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Rabies Awareness Month: Encouraging Philippine communities in the fight against rabies

Global Alliance for Rabies Control (2019) CC

In the Philippines, the month of March is celebrated as Rabies Awareness Month (RAM) every year as decreed by presidential executive order. A massive information campaign around rabies prevention/control is conducted, along with a free, mass dog vaccination campaign throughout the entire country.

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Further OIE Support for African Countries on Rabies vaccines

World Organisation for Animal Health WOAH (2017) C_WHO

Video Further OIE Support for African Countries on Rabies vaccines

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Education is vital to prevent rabies deaths

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

In March 2018, a family and their sick puppy travelled through heavy rains in Malawi to a rabies vaccination drive. The puppy had bitten the family’s 12-year-old son, Isaiah Mzonda several days before and tested positive for rabies during the vaccination drive. Without appropriate prevention and t... more

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Rabies a fatal but preventable viral disease

Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2022) CC

Rabies is a fatal but preventable viral disease. It can spread to people and pets if they are bitten or scratched by a rabid animal. In the United States, rabies is mostly found in wild animals like bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes. However, in many other countries dogs still carry rabies, and most... more