The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that more than 1.4 billion people in Southeast Asia are at risk of rabies as a result of huge human and dog populations in crowded habitable areas.
40 per cent of dog bites affect children aged 5-15 years in high risk rabies areas. More people die due to rabies in Southeast Asia than anywhere else.
The Southeast Asian region includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Rabies is caused by a virus transmitted from animals to humans. It infects tame and wild animals and spreads to humans via close contact with infected saliva via scratches or bites.
Countries have to develop and put in place comprehensive national rabies control programmes via partnerships to sustain prevention of rabies and with an urgency to eliminate human rabies.
It is vital that high risk countries ensure access to a modern tissue-culture rabies vaccine, which is a cheap, safe mode of vaccination for animals.
It is vital to promote cost-effective intradermal vaccination and control rabies at the source via mass dog vaccination.
WHO Says High Rabies Risk for over Billion in Southeast Asia
Tue, 27 Sep 2011
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