Dog rabies control in West and Central Africa: A review

C Mbilo, A Coetzer, B Bonfoh, A Angot, C Bebay… - Acta tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Rabies in a postpandemic world: resilient reservoirs, redoubtable riposte, recurrent roadblocks, and resolute recidivism

CE Rupprecht, PP Mshelbwala, RG Reeves, IV Kuzmin - Animal diseases, 2023 - Springer
Rabies is an ancient disease. Two centuries since Pasteur, fundamental progress occurred
in virology, vaccinology, and diagnostics—and an understanding of pathobiology and …

Benefit-cost analysis of coordinated strategies for control of rabies in Africa

A Bucher, A Dimov, G Fink, N Chitnis, B Bonfoh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Previous research suggests that dog mass vaccination campaigns can eliminate rabies
locally, resulting in large human and animal life gains. Despite these demonstrated benefits …

A cost-effectiveness analysis of pre-exposure prophylaxis to avert rabies deaths in school-aged children in India

A Royal, D John, O Bharti, R Tanwar, DK Bhagat… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Children contribute to one-half of the total painful rabies mortalities in India. The state-of-the-
art rabies mortality averting strategies need exploration for the effective implementation of …

Transparency, openness, and reproducible research practices are frequently underused in health economic evaluations

F Catalá-López, M Ridao, L Tejedor-Romero… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives To investigate the extent to which articles of economic evaluations of healthcare
interventions indexed in MEDLINE incorporate research practices that promote …

Using cross-species vaccination approaches to counter emerging infectious diseases

GM Warimwe, MJ Francis, TA Bowden… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Since the initial use of vaccination in the eighteenth century, our understanding of human
and animal immunology has greatly advanced and a wide range of vaccine technologies …

Mathematical modelling and phylodynamics for the study of dog rabies dynamics and control: A scoping review

M Layan, S Dellicour, G Baele… - PLOS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Rabies is a fatal yet vaccine-preventable disease. In the last two decades,
domestic dog populations have been shown to constitute the predominant reservoir of …

Challenges to the fight against rabies—the landscape of policy and prevention strategies in Africa

AH Haselbeck, S Rietmann, BT Tadesse… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nearly 59,000 human deaths worldwide are attributable to rabies annually, of which more
than a third occur in Africa. In recent years, progress has been made in both action and …

Knowledge, attitude and practice related to rabies among residents of Amhara region, Ethiopia

A Bahiru, W Molla, L Yizengaw, SA Mekonnen… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Background Rabies is an important viral zoonotic disease with high fatality rate and
economic losses. The impact of rabies is considerably high in Asia and Africa. The study …

Eliminating invisible deaths: the woeful state of global rabies data and its impact on progress towards 2030 sustainable development goals for neglected tropical …

C Swedberg, K Bote, L Gamble, N Fénelon… - Frontiers in tropical …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Like other neglected diseases, surveillance data for rabies is insufficient and incompatible
with the need to accurately describe the burden of disease. Multiple modeling studies …