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Rabies: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
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Rabies: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives

A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Neglected and Emerging Tropical Diseases".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 1994

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Koji Kanda

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Guest Editor
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan
Interests: global health; infectious disease epidemiology; occupational health; rabies; universal health coverage
Prof. Ananda Jayasinghe

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Guest Editor
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka
Interests: child development; community medicine; pediatrics; rabies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rabies causes about 59,000 annual deaths with more than 15 million human exposures worldwide, mostly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. An international community now calls for the worldwide canine rabies-free by 2030 (Zero by 30), which indicates no indigenously acquired dog-mediated rabies cases among humans to be achieved by the year 2030. To meet its goal, we should scale up the use of existing vaccines, medicines, and other scientifically proven interventional tools effectively, and then effective anti-rabies policies, guidance and governance need to be implemented throughout the country with reliable surveillance data to enable effective decision-making. Multisectoral collaborations are also essential under the framework of One Health to tackle rabies. Many need to be done towards elimination, but we should monitor, evaluate, and show the progress of elimination activities periodically and enhance them accordingly. Therefore, we would like to collect the papers on the current knowledge and advancement of rabies control and prevention at local, municipal, and/or national levels, and provide effective recommendations and future perspectives on the forthcoming elimination in this Special Issue.

Dr. Koji Kanda
Prof. Ananda Jayasinghe
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • elimination
  • intervention
  • one health
  • political commitment
  • post-exposure prophylaxis
  • prevention
  • rabies
  • surveillance
  • vaccination
  • zero by 30

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The Use of Dog Collars Offers Significant Benefits to Rabies Vaccination Campaigns: The Case of Zanzibar, Tanzania
by Khadija N. Omar, Andre Coetzer, Maulid Hamdu, Ayla J. Malan, Ali Z. Moh’d, Talib S. Suleiman and Louis H. Nel
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2023, 8(8), 421; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/tropicalmed8080421 - 21 Aug 2023
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Tools and resources that could increase dog vaccination coverage have become increasingly critical towards progressing the goal to eliminate dog-mediated human rabies by 2030. In this regard, dog collars that are fitted during vaccination campaigns could potentially enhance owner participation. The use of [...] Read more.
Tools and resources that could increase dog vaccination coverage have become increasingly critical towards progressing the goal to eliminate dog-mediated human rabies by 2030. In this regard, dog collars that are fitted during vaccination campaigns could potentially enhance owner participation. The use of dog collars will, however, increase the cost per dog vaccinated and the impact and benefit of this practice should be elucidated. This study evaluated the impact of dog collars by testing the perception and related behavioural influences in communities in Zanzibar. In this cross-sectional investigation—conducted approximately two months after the implementation of a mass dog vaccination (MDV) where dog collars were provided to vaccinated dogs—data were collected from 600 respondents in 56 municipal wards in Zanzibar. Descriptive analyses and logistic regressions were undertaken to determine the impact the collars had on respondents with regards to (i) engaging with the community dogs, (ii) health seeking behaviour after exposure, and (iii) overall participation during dog vaccination campaigns. From the data, it was evident that the collars had a positive impact on the community’s perception of dogs, with 57% of the respondents feeling safer around a dog with a collar, while 66% of the respondents felt less safe around a dog without a collar. Furthermore, the collars had a positive impact on participation during dog vaccination campaigns. Of the 142 respondents who owned dogs, 64% reported that the collars made them more likely to take their dogs for vaccination, and 95% felt that the collar was an important sign of the dog’s vaccination status. This study demonstrated that dog collars could not only improve participation during dog vaccination campaigns, but that they could also play a significant role in the community’s perception of rabies vaccination campaigns and vaccinated dogs in general. Full article
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