Assessment of the impact on paediatric rabies at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, following a mass canine rabies vaccination programme

Purpose: Background: Rabies is a common infection in the domestic and wild animal population of Malawi. Significant numbers of children die a terrible death each year as a consequence. Many more individuals are bitten by potentially infected dogs each month and require post exposure vaccination. However, rabies is a preventable infection against which there is a good vaccine for both animals and humans. Previous work suggests that if canine vaccine coverage can reach 70%, there will be consequent fall in human incidence.

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - January 31, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: B.L. Zimmer, L. Gamble, R. Foster, N. Kennedy, D. Mayer, J. Burdon Bailey, J. Lemon, J. Langton Tags: 20.074 Source Type: research