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Rabies update: Rabies in the Americas (RITA) to host webinar on current guidelines and recommendations

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Rabies in the Americas (RITA) has announced an upcoming webinar scheduled for November 1, from 9 am-1230 pm CDT, which will go over recent World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on human rabies...

Rabies in the US: Geography, wildlife, exposure and prevention

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Rabies is an acute viral infection that is transmitted to humans or other mammals usually through the saliva from a bite of an infected animal. It is also rarely contracted through breaks in the skin or...

Rabies: WHO report provides updated guidance on the multiple facets of prevention, control and elimination

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The World Health Organization (WHO) published the third report of its Expert Consultation on Rabies, which incorporates the latest recommendations on rabies immunization made in October 2017 by the WHO...

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‘If you want to prevent humans from dying from rabies in Africa and Asia, you need to eliminate dog rabies’: Swiss researcher

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The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, together with European and African collaborators (including the Institut Pasteur in Paris), carried out a mass dog vaccination in Chad and determined its...

Everything you wanted to know about rabies

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Rabies is among the deadliest communicable diseases in the world with a case-fatality rate of ~100% with out post exposure treatment and vaccination. People usually get rabies from the bite of a rabid...

Rabies: A comprehensive interview with Pamela Wilson

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Rabies is a disease that most people have at least a rudimentary knowledge of, starting at childhood on through adulthood. On Sep. 28 this year, World Rabies Day will be highlighted for the 1oth year,...