ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2020
Rabies as a Public Health Concern in India-A Historical Perspective.
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- Burden of dog bites and associated healthcare seeking behavior for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in North and South Shahdara municipal zones of Delhi, India.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Improving awareness of rabies and free-roaming dogs in schools of Guwahati, Assam, India: exploring the educators' perspective.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Human health implications of emerging diseases and the current situation in India's vaccine industry.Science in One Health · 2023Review
- Diagnosis and management of rabies encephalitis in two patients in northwest Africa: A case series.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
- Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
India bears the highest burden of global dog-mediated human rabies deaths. Despite this, rabies is not notifiable in India and continues to be underprioritised in public health discussions. This review examines the historical treatment of rabies in British India, a disease which has received relatively less attention in the literature on Indian medical history. Human and animal rabies was widespread in British India, and treatment of bite victims imposed a major financial burden on the colonial Government of India. It subsequently became a driver of Pasteurism in India and globally and a key component of British colonial scientific enterprise. Efforts to combat rabies led to the establishment of a wide network of research institutes in India and important breakthroughs in development of rabies vaccines. As a result of these efforts, rabies no longer posed a significant threat to the British, and it declined in administrative and public health priorities in India towards the end of colonial rule-a decline that has yet to be reversed in modern-day India. The review also highlights features of the administrative, scientific and societal approaches to dealing with this disease in British India that persist to this day.
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