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On World Rabies Day – which is also the anniversary of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur’s death – a virologist reflects on the achievements of this visionary scientist.
Allowing cats to roam unsupervised is detrimental to humans, wildlife and the cats themselves. Managing free-roaming cats should consider the risks they pose to other species.
Kenya should improve access to life saving vaccines, and train healthcare workers on patient management and best practices.
The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
Domestic dogs have been shown to be the only species necessary to maintain rabies across most of Africa. This means that dog vaccination should control the disease in all species.
The world is in the grip of a new pandemic which sets back the fight against rabies.
In Kenya, rabies is estimated to kill up to 2,000 people every year.
Fear of a disease that seemed to turn people into beasts might have inspired belief in supernatural beings that live on in today’s creepy Halloween costumes.
Rabies is almost always fatal once the symptoms appear. It is also completely preventable, so long as you know how to protect yourself.
Health authorities have raised the alarm after several cases of human rabies were reported in a space of four months.
Pets give us a lot of joy … and sometimes a few diseases.
By tackling local threats and controlling existing diseases, countries are able to build the capacity needed to deal with future emerging disease threats.
The strategy to eliminate human rabies is straight forward: vaccinate dogs, provide prompt post-exposure vaccines, public education and awareness on prevention.
A critical factor in the preservation of the Ethiopian wolf is the commitment and dedication to finding common ground between the needs of people and wildlife.
A woman developed sepsis after she was licked by her pet greyhound.
They kill thousands of animals and people every year by spreading rabies. New research findings could solve the problem.
Understanding how the flu virus copies itself could open a way to killing it.
New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
Chacha, a farmer and businessman from northern Tanzania, returned home from market one afternoon to find that his family’s newly adopted puppy had bitten five of his children. The puppy had been playful…
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