UK veterinary charity to commence largest ever canine rabies vaccination drive in Cambodia

On 22nd May Mission Rabies, a project of the international charity WVS which has recently merged with Dogs Trust, will commence a mass vaccination drive in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Mission Rabies aims to vaccinate 100,000 dogs against rabies in just ten days, making this Cambodia’s largest canine rabies vaccination project to date. Rabies kills approximately 59,000 people globally every year and Cambodia has one of the highest rabies death rates per capita of any country in the world. Mission Rabies will work closely with the local government and charity…

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Two million dogs vaccinated against the world’s deadliest disease by UK charity Mission Rabies

This World Rabies Day the global public health charity, Mission Rabies, is celebrating the milestone of vaccinating two million dogs worldwide against rabies. This is a result of the charity’s mass vaccination campaigns that have been running since 2013, in an effort to stop human deaths from rabies by 2030. World Rabies Day takes place on the 28th September each year, which marks the anniversary of Louis Pasteur’s death who administered the very first human rabies vaccine in 1885. Despite being vaccine preventable, rabies still claims the life of a…

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Charity urges British animal lovers heading abroad to be rabies aware

After a spike in demand for foreign trips as travel restrictions ease, and the scrapping of the amber list from October 4 in England that will see 71 of the world’s canine rabies endemic countries added to the green list, UK-based charity Mission Rabies is urging animal lovers travelling overseas to know how to protect themselves against rabies. The caution falls on World Rabies Day, September 28, and comes after the charity has seen an increase in transmission at project sites due to the pandemic.  Founder and CEO for the Mission, Dr Luke Gamble, explains that rabies is endemic (still…

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UK charity makes huge breakthrough in the battle against one of the world’s oldest known diseases

Whilst the world continues its battle against COVID-19, a state in India has taken a giant step forward in eliminating one of the world’s oldest known, deadliest diseases – rabies, which still kills a child every nine minutes.  A third of all deaths occur in India and there are 4.5 million exposures every year. The disease takes a huge toll on the country, but today the state of Goa has been declared a Rabies Controlled Area – becoming the first State in India’s history to achieve this. The announcement from…

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Charity on a mission to prevent 1,074,000 rabies deaths by 2030.

Mission Rabies, the charity dedicated to eliminating Rabies worldwide, announced its new campaign “The Final Rabies Generation” that launches today on World Rabies Day. The Campaign aims to raise awareness for their life-saving programs in countries including; India, Malawi, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Cambodia, where the projects have already vaccinated over 1.3m dogs since they began in 2013. The Charity vaccinates dogs because 99% of all human rabies cases are caused by an infected dog bite. Mass-culling of dogs doesn’t work, and is desperately cruel – but…

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