Order of the High Court of Kerala in Re: Brunu (Suo Motu) Public Interest Litigation dated 14/08/2022. The High Court of Kerala convened a special sitting taking note of the instances of dog bites being reported across the state. The HC talked about the various orders passed by the court …
Order of the High Court of Kerala in Re: Brunu (Suo Motu) Public Interest Litigation dated 14/08/2022. The High Court of Kerala convened a special sitting taking note of the instances of dog bites being reported across the state. The HC talked about the various orders passed by the court …
With 5.2 lakh children and 23,000 school teachers educated on the virus in four years, with close to 1 lakh dogs vaccinated annually, and 106 positive samples between 2017 and 2018, Goa is the first state that did not report a single human death due to rabies last year. In, …
Rabies vaccines hidden inside goat meat baits have been deployed in the first campaign to protect the Ethiopian wolf, Africa’s most endangered carnivore. There are less than 500 of the wolves in the high mountains of Ethiopia and they are very vulnerable to infectious diseases from domestic dogs. The oral …
Chinese authorities have ordered a company in the northeastern province of Jilin to halt production of a vaccine after it was recalled last week, amid an ongoing probe into fraudulent business practices, official media reported. China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) ordered Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences to halt production on …
Dog bites, money bites have become a menace in Delhi. According to a data, 19 people lost their lives due to animal bites between 2016 and 2018. Apart from this as many as 3,000 dog bite cases came to the fore till April 2018, as per The Indian Express report. …
At least 22 people have died of rabies in Mulanje as the government needs K17 million to buy vaccines for dogs and cats. Taurayi Mbengo from veterinary office in Mulanje said the deaths have occured from July last year. He said 1600 people had dog bites and were infected with …
Dog rabies annually causes 24,000–70,000 deaths globally. We built a spreadsheet tool, RabiesEcon, to aid public health officials to estimate the cost-effectiveness of dog rabies vaccination programs in East Africa. Original Source
The concept of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is built around low socioeconomic status (SES) and poverty as the most important social determinants [1]. Poor health is not confined to poor people, but the burden of poor health is disproportionately greater within poor communities. A combination of insufficient social programs, …
An outbreak of rabies has hit Malawi’s northern region district of Chitipa, Malawi24 can report. According to reports, two children have died since rabies hit the district with ten cases being recorded each day at Chitipa hospital. Confirming the outbreak, senior veterinary officer in the district Samson Kaonga said his …
Scientists in China have found that a rabies vaccine usually given to dogs can also protect livestock. Rabies in domestic cattle and camels, infected by wild dog and fox bites, has been on the rise in north-west China. Because there is no oral vaccine for wild animals in China, it …
A total of 16,744 people died as a result of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in 2015, according to official data revealed on Thursday. In 2015, there were more than 6.4 million cases of infectious diseases reported on the mainland, said the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Of …
Dar es Salaam — Rabies, a viral infection which mainly results from dog-bites kill around 1,500 people in Tanzania each year, statistics shows. A majority of people who die from the highly infectious condition are children from poor and marginal communities, experts say. Despite being an immunisable disease, rabies kills …
Rabies has always been seen as something of an enigma in the healthcare world. An uncommon disease, rabies has all but disappeared in developed worlds. However, its capacity to quickly and mercilessly kill its victims - even those treated with modern medicines - has made it seen as the deadliest …
In 2012, the WHO estimated that India accounts for 20,000 rabies cases each year, though the government and experts have disputed this figure. The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory body under the Environment and Forests Ministry, is struggling to rope in NGOs and animal welfare groups to …
Dog bites: Dewathang military hospital received five dog bite cases within three hours on a single day last week. Except for one, it was found that all others were bitten by a rabid dog inside the military campus. On the following day, two more were admitted, after they were also …
The World Bank on Wednesday (27) approved a concessionary loan of US$ 200 million, at an interest rate of 1.25 percent, to Sri Lanka for the Health Sector Development Project to help the government upgrade the standards of performance of the public health system and enable it to better respond …
The World Bank approved yesterday a concessionary loan of US $ 200 million to Sri Lanka for the Second Health Sector Development Project (SHSDP) to help the Sri Lankan government to upgrade the standards of performance of the public health system and enable it to better respond to the challenges …
In an effort to revive the population of vultures that has sharply gone down over the past 10 to 15 years in the country, a sanctuary for the species is being established in Nagarparkar, where the birds have recently been seen nesting, Dawn has learnt. The conservation of the scavenger …
