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ArticleFrontiers in public health2017

The Road to Dog Rabies Control and Elimination-What Keeps Us from Moving Faster?

Anna S Fahrion, Louise H Taylor, Gregorio Torres, Thomas Müller, Salome Dürr, Lea Knopf, Katinka de Balogh, Louis H Nel, Mary Joy Gordoncillo, Bernadette Abela-Ridder

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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10 authors.

Anna S FahrionNeglected Zoonotic Diseases, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Louise H TaylorGlobal Alliance for Rabies Control, Manhattan, KS, USA.
Gregorio TorresWorld Organisation for Animal Health, Paris, France.
Thomas MüllerInstitute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Löffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald, Germany.
Salome DürrVeterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Lea KnopfNeglected Zoonotic Diseases, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Katinka de BaloghFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bangkok, Thailand.
Louis H NelGlobal Alliance for Rabies Control, Manhattan, KS, USA.
Mary Joy GordoncilloWorld Organisation for Animal Health, Paris, France.
Bernadette Abela-RidderNeglected Zoonotic Diseases, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rabies, a vaccine preventable neglected tropical disease, still claims an estimated 35,000-60,000 human lives annually. The international community, with more than 100 endemic countries, has set a global target of 0 human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030. While it has been proven in several countries and regions that elimination of rabies as a public health problem is feasible and tools are available, rabies deaths globally have not yet been prevented effectively. While there has been extensive rabies research, specific areas of implementation for control and elimination have not been sufficiently addressed. This article highlights some of the commonest perceived barriers for countries to implementing rabies control and elimination programs and discusses possible solutions for sociopolitical, organizational, technical, and resource-linked requirements, following the pillars of the global framework for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies adopted at the global rabies meeting in December 2015.

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dog rabiesglobal frameworkimplementationneglected tropical diseasesrabieszero human deaths

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PMID28555183
PMCPMC5430047

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