AGRICULTURAL NEWS - A collaboration of international partners is aiming to eradicate dog-mediated rabies in humans by 2030.
Launched worldwide on 18 June, the United Against Rabies Collaboration (UARC) intends to raise and utilise approximately US$50 million (R690 million) to vaccinate enough dogs around the world to wipe out dog-to-human rabies.
“In up to 99% of cases, domestic dogs are responsible for transmission of rabies virus to humans, which occurs mostly through bites or scratches, usually via saliva. Rabies is 100% vaccine-preventable, yet the disease kills almost 59 000 people every year – or one person every nine minutes – 40% of whom are children living in Asia and Africa,” a URAC statement said.
