Tag: Mission Rabies

British woman who lost mum to rabies takes part in record-breaking dog vaccination drive that aims to make rabies history

Stuart Mitchell

Robyn Thomson, whose mother made headlines when she passed away from rabies earlier this year, has played a crucial role in a mass dog vaccination drive in Cambodia aiming to protect people and animals from the deadly disease. The project was spearheaded by UK animal charity Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS), as part of their Mission Rabies project, in collaboration with the Cambodian government. From 20th October to 2nd November, over 221,000 dogs received free rabies vaccinations. On Thursday 23rd October over 10,000 dogs were vaccinated in just one day, the highest ever…

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UK Charity Leads Life-Saving Rabies Response in World’s Largest Refugee Camp 

Stuart Mitchell

With fears rising over the spread of rabies in the world’s largest refugee settlement, UK charity Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) has spearheaded an emergency response that has vaccinated over 1,700 dogs in just four days – a lifesaving intervention in one of the most densely populated and underserved humanitarian settings on earth.   The campaign was launched in response to a 128% increase in reported dog bite cases between 2021 and 2023, as recorded by the WHO Cox’s Bazar Health Sector Bulletins. Rabies is almost always fatal once symptoms develop, yet entirely preventable through timely…

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

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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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