Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease present in more than 150 countries around
the world. Globally, almost 60,000 people die each year from rabies, of which more than …

Rabies is a global problem, but the burden is higher in less developed or developing
countries of Asia and Africa. In Nepal, rabies is reported to kill around 500 animals and up to …

There are eleven Member States in the WHO southeast Asia region (Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri …

Rabies is a viral zoonotic infection of the central nervous system caused by a lyssavirus. The
disease is fatal without proper post exposure prophylaxis (PEP). In July 1885, Louis Pasteur …

Although India accounts for nearly 50% of the global rabies mortality, there is no organised
national rabies control programme. Rabies control is generally confined to small urban …

9. Abbas SS, Kakkar M. Systems thinking needed for rabies control. Lancet. 2013 Jan 19;
381 (9862): 200. doi: http://dx. doi. org/10.1016/S0140-6736 (13) 60082-3 PMID: 23332953 …

Why are 50,000–55,000 people dying from rabies worldwide each year, with 25,000–30,000
human deaths in India alone and over 3 billion people continuing to be at risk of rabies virus …

Human rabies is regarded as a fatal disease; however, its occurrence is preventable.
Prevention consists of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for humans and controlling the main …

More than 75% of emerging infectious diseases and 60% of known human infectious
diseases are transmitted from animals. Among these zoonoses, rabies is of utmost public …

Rabies is fully preventable. About 563 million United States dollars are spent annually in the
world on measures to prevent rabies, 1 1 Knobel DL, Cleaveland S, Coleman PG, Fèvre EM …