During focus groups, it became clear that dogs function more as an "alarm bell" alerting family members to strangers than as attack dogs, as crime was believed to be low and the dogs were absent (roaming) for most of the day. Farmers living near mountainous area...
Rabies is the oldest diseases known to mankind. Occurring on all continents, except Antarctica, rabies remains one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTD) that predominantly affects the poor of the poor particularly in Asia and Africa still causing tens
However, we knew that there was a clinic in the next town that stocks post bite rabies treatment and if they were to be bitten help was at hand. We were talking to a local camp site owner just before we left. He said he’d had 4 guest bitten by dogs so far this year, and this...
Dogs are responsible for the majority of infections globally, but in countries that vaccinate pets against the virus, or that are generally rabies-free, wild animals like raccoons, bats and foxes tend to be the source of infection. Animals with rabies tend to act strangely or confused, may ...
For example, for MSP vaccination, many owned dogs are brought for vaccination within the first several hours of vaccination clinic operations, but available dogs wane as time goes by. We thus tracked the number of vaccinated dogs per hour for each vaccination strategy. To provide a measure of ...
When an animal is still alive, the rabies laboratory refers the owner to the nearby public veterinary clinic for observation. The IRED charges the owner of the animal 5000 FCFA (8 USD) for rabies diagnostic testing, and there is no charge for feral dogs. The rabies surveillance in N'...