Emerging and reemerging neglected tropical diseases: a review of key characteristics, risk factors, and the policy and innovation environment

TK Mackey, BA Liang, R Cuomo, R Hafen… - Clinical microbiology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
In global health, critical challenges have arisen from infectious diseases, including the
emergence and reemergence of old and new infectious diseases. Emergence and …

The role of dog population management in rabies elimination—a review of current approaches and future opportunities

LH Taylor, RM Wallace, D Balaram… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Free-roaming dogs and rabies transmission are integrally linked across many low-income
countries, and large unmanaged dog populations can be daunting to rabies control program …

Estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies

K Hampson, L Coudeville, T Lembo… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income
countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies …

Elimination of dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030: needs assessment and alternatives for progress based on dog vaccination

RM Wallace, EA Undurraga, JD Blanton… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Background Rabies imposes a substantial burden to about half of the world population. The
World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health, and the Food and …

Evidence‐based control of canine rabies: a critical review of population density reduction

MK Morters, O Restif, K Hampson… - Journal of animal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Control measures for canine rabies include vaccination and reducing population density
through culling or sterilization. Despite the evidence that culling fails to control canine …

[HTML][HTML] Review of rabies in Nepal

S Pantha, D Subedi, U Poudel, S Subedi, K Kaphle… - One Health, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Review on dog rabies vaccination coverage in Africa: a question of dog accessibility or cost recovery?

T Jibat, H Hogeveen, MCM Mourits - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Rabies still poses a significant human health problem throughout most of Africa,
where the majority of the human cases results from dog bites. Mass dog vaccination is …

[HTML][HTML] Rationale and support for a One Health program for canine vaccination as the most cost-effective means of controlling zoonotic rabies in endemic settings

RP Lavan, AIMG King, DJ Sutton, K Tunceli - Vaccine, 2017 - Elsevier
Although dog vaccination has been demonstrated to reduce and eliminate rabies in
humans, during meetings there are often calls for further pilot studies. The assembled data …

Rabies control and elimination: a test case for One Health

S Cleaveland, F Lankester, S Townsend… - Veterinary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
One Health approaches have already been shown to be successful in controlling rabies in
different parts of the world. In this article, the latest in Veterinary Record's series promoting …

Domestic dogs in rural communities around protected areas: conservation problem or conflict solution?

MA Sepúlveda, RS Singer, E Silva-Rodriguez… - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Although domestic dogs play many important roles in rural households, they can also be an
important threat to the conservation of wild vertebrates due to predation, competition and …