Tag: Mission Rabies

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

Stuart Mitchell

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.

Stuart Mitchell

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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