The Vaccination of 35,000 Dogs in 20 Working Days Using Combined Static Point and Door-to-Door Methods in Blantyre, Malawi.

An estimated 60,000 people die of rabies annually. The vast majority of cases of human rabies develop following a bite from an infected dog. Rabies can be controlled in both human and canine populations through widespread vaccination of dogs. Rabies is particularly problematic in Malawi, costing the...

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Published in:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Main Authors: Andrew D Gibson, Ian G Handel, Kate Shervell, Tarryn Roux, Dagmar Mayer, Stanford Muyila, Golden B Maruwo, Edwin M S Nkhulungo, Rachel A Foster, Patrick Chikungwa, Bernard Chimera, Barend M deC Bronsvoort, Richard J Mellanby, Luke Gamble
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-07-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4945057?pdf=render