Ditorial: Orld Abies AY What IS Going ON Around THE World
Ditorial: Orld Abies AY What IS Going ON Around THE World
Ditorial: Orld Abies AY What IS Going ON Around THE World
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World Rabies Day in India ..................... 2
SEPTEMBER 2010 Rabies in Ghana.................................... 3
WRD ‘Picture It’ Compe��on ............... 3
Rabies Epidemiology in Uganda ............ 4
Electronic Consulta�on on Dog
Popula�on Management ................... 4
Rabies Educa�on in Rural India ............. 5
Rabies Scien�fic Consulta�on ............... 5
Dominican Republic Rabies Campaign .. 6
WRD Sailing ......................................... 6
New Rabies Vaccine Posi�on Paper ...... 7
RITA Charity Auc�on ............................. 7
Upcoming Conferences ......................... 7
EDITORIAL
This month the world will observe the fourth annual children’s poster contests, have educated hundreds of
World Rabies Day. A�er ini�a�ng the first World Rabies millions of people around the world and provided new and
Day, several of my colleagues told me that simply having fresh ideas for others to help improve rabies awareness in
one day a year to do something about rabies preven�on their own area. Whatever it is you chose to do this year for
would never be enough, and that in fact rabies preven�on World Rabies Day, we encourage you to send a report along
needed to be a yearlong ac�vity, rather than a one-day with photos to Peter Costa at peter.costa@worldrabiesday.org
event. A�er four years of watching and listening as Peter so that we can publicize your events on our website.
Costa, Head of Global Communica�ons for the Alliance There are many conferences relevant to rabies control
and Louise Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of our Newsle�er, fielded that are scheduled to take place in the upcoming months and
ques�ons and stories from around the world, it seems to you will find more informa�on on these mee�ngs enclosed
me that many countries have been able to use the World in the Newsle�er. We hope to see you at the Rabies in the
Rabies Day ini�a�ve as a springboard to improve rabies Americas Mee�ng next month and invite you to stop by our
preven�on ac�vi�es in their own region. The wide-ranging booth and meet our staff. Meanwhile, we wish all of you
ac�vi�es that people have organized for World Rabies great success for your planned events for World Rabies Day
Day, ranging from the tradi�onal educa�onal forums and and hope to hear from you soon.
animal vaccina�on clinics to ingenious theatre produc�ons, Deborah Briggs
samba dances hosted by veterinarians, dog-sled races and Execu�ve Director, Alliance for Rabies Control
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Indian Film and Sports celebri�es have been iden�fied to spread the message on Rabies and its preven�on
in English and in 10 Indian languages across the whole country. Sports icon and former Captain of the Indian
Cricket Team, Rahul Dravid has already recorded this message which will be telecast at prime �me every day
between 21st and 28th September 2010 by all the TV channels of the country. In addi�on film stars such
as Amala Akkineni, Ganesh, Trisha who are revered by fans across the country will also be recording this
message in their own languages to be telecast during that week on all local vernacular channels.
On Wednesday 25th August 2010 an InterSectoral
Mee�ng on Preven�on and Control of Rabies in India was
held at the Veterinary College Bangalore with members
of the medical and veterinary profession invited. This Rahul Dravid
was a brain storming mee�ng with 50 members present, including Dr. Gongal,
SEARO WHO India, Maj. Gen. Kharb, Chairman Animal Welfare Board of India,
Dr. Chinny Krishna, Chairman Blue Cross of India, Chennai, Deans of Veterinary
Colleges, Pharmaceu�cal Industry, Municipal Corpora�on Vets in charge of stray
dog control and ABC programmes and members of the Rabies in Asia Founda�on
(RIA). Recommenda�ons have been drawn up to be sent to the Government of
Intersectoral mee�ng in Bangalore India. In addi�on it was also decided to take a delega�on from this mee�ng under
the leadership of Maj. Gen. Kharb to meet the Minister of Agriculture/Health to increase the pressure to make rabies a no�fiable
disease in India.
Brief Informa�on on Rabies has been prepared in English and translated into Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali,
Oriya, Punjabi, Gujarathi, and Marathi. This will be sent to Members of Parliament from their cons�tuencies in all states to pressurise
the government to make rabies a no�fiable disease.
Rabies posters and leaflets with the WRD 2010 logo have been printed in various Indian languages and are being distributed
throughout the country through Veterinary and Medical schools. Fi�een Veterinary Colleges will undertake a Rabies awareness
programme in the week preceding 28th September, distribu�ng informa�on and posters and conduc�ng An� Rabies vaccina�on
camps.
A public interest film on Rabies has been produced by RIA. It will be officially released at a press conference on 27th September
and a programme on Rabies will be aired by the local TV sta�on. An intradermal vaccina�on programme for school children has
been organised in Bangalore. A series of lectures on Rabies will be delivered by veterinarians and medical personnel in public and
private schools in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Taken together, these ac�vi�es show that WRD outreach in India is set to be bigger
than ever. Contributed by Dr Abdul Rahman, a board member of the Alliance and Secretary of the Commonwealth Veterinary Associa�on
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
The 21st Interna�onal Conference on Rabies in the Americas (RITA) will be held from October 17th to October 22nd, 2010
at the Camino Real Hotel in Guadalajara City, Mexico. For further details please go to www.senasica.gob.mx/?id=2511
The 10th SEARG mee�ng in Maputo, Mozambique will be held January 25-28, 2011.
Registra�on forms are now available on the mee�ng webpage
IMED 2011, the Interna�onal Mee�ng on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance will be held in Vienna, Austria,
from February 4th to 7th, 2011 The congress web site is h�p://imed.isid.org
The First Interna�onal One Health Congress will be held in Melbourne, Australia 14th-16th February 2011.
More details are at www.onehealth2011.com
The OIE’s “Global conference on rabies control: Towards sustainable preven�on at the source”
will be held 7-9 September 2011 in Seoul, Korea. Further informa�on is available here.
The editor of the Alliance newsletter is Louise Taylor. If you have news items or information of interest to those working to defeat rabies,
please contact her at louise.taylor@rabiescontrol.net. For further information on the Alliance’s work see www.rabiescontrol.net.
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