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Showing posts with label end rabies now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label end rabies now. Show all posts
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Saturday, April 23, 2022
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RABIES CONTROL(GARC) : ALL YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT RABIES.
GARC's mission is to prevent human deaths from dog-mediated rabies and relieve the burden of rabies in other animal populations, especially dogs.
The aim is to eliminate human deaths from dog rabies by 2030, by working with governments; veterinary, public health and educational experts; and communities to facilitate policy change and build capacity to eliminate rabies in areas hardest hit by the disease.
End Rabies Now (ERN) is a GARC-coordinated communications campaign that aims to galvanize global support and funding to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030. Education is very important in the zero by 30 campaign, get involved.
The End Rabies Now campaign goals are to:
1)Significantly raise the profile of rabies as a global health challenge that demands international attention and active support to save lives.
2)Support the achievement of a target set out by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) that aims to end the epidemics of neglected tropical diseases by 2030.
3) Put rabies elimination on the agenda of foundations, donor governments and international institutions; thereby increasing available financial resources to stimulate action in rabies-endemic countries.
4) Gain the commitment of politicians to advocate for and support rabies elimination in endemic countries
Create a platform to galvanize civil society groups interested in rabies control to present a united front against rabies.
Monday, March 28, 2022
RABIES: a neglected disease that perpetuates poverty.
RABIES: a neglected disease that perpetuates poverty.
Rabies is a preventable disease that overwhelmingly afflicts the poor, both in terms of its death toll and the associated financial burden. Annual economic losses because of the disease are around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature deaths, but also because of spending on human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites, and other costs.
With a survival rate of less than 0.1%, those exposed to the virus face a stark choice: go in search of a series of vaccines and immunoglobulin that prevent the onset of the disease (post-exposure prophylaxis, PEP) or die. In some cases, PEP costs more than the monthly household income, and families are known to either go into debt to pay for PEP, or sell livestock on which they depend for income; both are options that negatively affect families’ future prospects. Rabies can destroy families literally (through death), emotionally, and financially – making it a truly horrific disease.
Rabies survivor !!!
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Rabies: kicking rabies out of our communities.
Friday, March 25, 2022
End rabies now: Zero by 30.
It is totally unacceptable for anyone to die of rabies: break the cycle, vaccinate your dogs.
59,000 People die every year of rabies.
Be a f.o.r.c.e, eliminate rabies.
Monday, December 25, 2017
VETERINARY MEDICINE : Not just bite, dog’s scratch too causes rabies.
VETERINARY MEDICINE : Not just bite, dog’s scratch too causes rabies.
Fifty-year-old Savita (not her real name) was brought to rural doctor Himmat Bawaskar's hospital in Mahad on a May afternoon with an undiagnosed condition, but the diagnosis became obvious when the doctor mentioned 'pani' (water).
Savita severely choked just as patients with rabies do on developing its well documented symptom - hydrophobia (fear of water).
"She was brought to us on the fourth day of fever, body ache and breathlessness. She heard 'water' and got a laryngeal (vocal cord) spasm," said Dr Bawaskar. Soon, doctors noticed another rabies symptom -extreme sensitivity to light. :
Not just bite, dog’s scratch too causes rabies. Dr Bawaskar, who is credited with several researches on snake and scorpion venom, has written about Savita's case in the latest edition of the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine to highlight poor awareness and dangerous societal practices vis-a-vis rabies.
"People in rural areas go to tantriks after a dog-bite though the vaccine and immunoglobulin shots are available at government centres," said the doctor.
Savita died after four days at the Mahad hospital, managing to relate how a rabid dog in her village had bitten four people before tugging at her saree 'pallu'. She got a few abrasions on her feet.
According to the medical journal, Savita washed the wound and didn't bother about a vaccine as she felt only dog bites cause rabies. She only took herbal medicine from a tantrik.
Dr Bawaskar, who has been in the news for filing a case against a diagnostic chain for offering him a cutback for referring a patient for a CT scan, said Savita must have got infected as dogs' nails and claws too harbour the virus as they keep licking them.
"This case busts the myth that cuts don't result in rabies," he said. Vaccine is advised for any cut where blood flows out.
#rabies #bites #cuts #vaccination.#travel
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