Public awareness on vaccination of cats against rabies and risk of human rabies due to cats in Sri Lanka

Background: Rabies is a viral zoonotic disease, most commonly spreads through the contamination of bites or scratches with virus laden saliva of infected animals. Though it is 100% fatal, it is 100% preventable if post exposure prophylaxis is administered before onset of clinical signs. Today Rabies has become a major public health issue. Presently, vaccinating only domesticated and stray dogs is the method of intervention carried out to control the transmission cycle among dogs which is, the reservior of rabies in Sri Lanka.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: 0596 Source Type: research