Effective vaccination campaigns need to reach a sufficient percentage of the population to
eliminate disease and prevent future outbreaks, which for rabies is predicted to be 70%, at a …

Canine vaccination has been successful in controlling rabies in diverse settings worldwide.
However, concerns remain that coverage levels which have previously been sufficient might …

Rabies is a neglected but preventable zoonotic disease that predominantly affects the most
vulnerable populations living in remote rural areas of resource-limited countries. To date …

Despite the availability of safe and effective rabies vaccines, the incidence of dog rabies has
been increasing throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. Here we describe a vaccination …

Canine rabies remains an important public-health problem in Africa. Dog mass vaccination
is the recommended method for rabies control and elimination. We report on the first small …

Although dog vaccination has been demonstrated to reduce and eliminate rabies in
humans, during meetings there are often calls for further pilot studies. The assembled data …

Background Rabies still poses a significant human health problem throughout most of Africa,
where the majority of the human cases results from dog bites. Mass dog vaccination is …

Background Dog rabies annually causes 24,000–70,000 deaths globally. We built a
spreadsheet tool, RabiesEcon, to aid public health officials to estimate the cost-effectiveness …

Background Canine rabies causes many thousands of human deaths every year in Africa,
and continues to increase throughout much of the continent. Methodology/Principal Findings …

BACKGROUND: Human rabies remains a significant problem in many developing countries,
where canine rabies is the most common means of transmission. Although vaccination of …