Sterilisation and rabies vaccination programs seek to manage free-roaming domestic dog
(Canis familiaris) populations with the aim to reduce inter-species disease transmission and …

Simple Summary Surgical sterilisation is a component of free-roaming dog population
management programmes worldwide. However, evidence of the population-level impacts of …

Rabies causes approximately 20,000 human deaths in India each year. Nearly all of these
occur following dog bites. Large-scale, high-coverage dog rabies vaccination campaigns …

Simple Summary Free-roaming dogs in Greater Bangkok are tolerated and fed by
sympathetic citizens. Although many people accept dogs on their street, many more are not …

This chapter provides an overview of animal welfare and public health problems associated
with free-roaming dog populations and strategies to resolve these problems. Placing CNR …

Background Surgical sterilisation is currently the method of choice for controlling free-
roaming dog populations. However, there are significant logistical challenges to neutering …

Background Rabies is a serious yet neglected public health threat in resource-limited
communities in Africa, where the virus is maintained in populations of owned, free-roaming …

Mass vaccination of dogs is a mainstay for efforts to control rabies and other viral pathogens.
The success of such programs is a function of the ability to vaccinate sufficient proportions of …

The effective management of stray dogs is critically important in any rabies vaccination
programme. In many rabies-endemic countries, stray dogs represent a significant proportion …

Animal Birth Control (ABC) is a program by which stray dogs are sterilized and vaccinated
against rabies with the aim of controlling both dog population size and rabies. Population …