One Health for Dog-mediated Rabies Elimination in Asia

A Collection of Local Experiences

by Vanessa Slack, Deborah Nadal, Sandul Yasobant, Florence Cliquet, Waqas Ahmad, Nihal Pushpakumara, Sumon Ghosh

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Although an effective rabies vaccine has existed since 1885, rabies continues to kill an estimated 59,000 people, and uncalculated animals, every year. Sixty per cent of these human deaths occur in Asia. To work towards the global target of eliminating dog-mediated rabies by 2030, the rabies community is applying the One Health approach. Written by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and rabies control programme specialists, this book is a collection of experiences and observations on the challenges and successes along the path to rabies control and prevention in Asia. It: - Grounds chapters in solid scientific theory, but retains a direct, practice-focused and inspirational approach; - Provides numerous examples of lessons learned and experience-based knowledge gained across countries at different levels of rabies control and elimination; - Brings together and highlights the practices of a strong, international rabies network that works according to the One Health concept. Covering perspectives from almost a dozen Asian countries and a wide range of sectors and disciplines, such as healthcare facilities, veterinary services, laboratories, academia, public health institutes and wildlife research centres, this book is an invaluable resource for rabies scholars and practitioners, but also those working in the wider fields of disease control and cross-sectoral One Health.

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Author Biography

Vanessa Slack has a BS in Zoology from Northern Michigan University and an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA. Since 2018, she has analysed and mapped surveillance data from animal rabies cases and human exposure risks in Colorado and Texas. She is currently working as a Zoonosis Control Program Specialist at the Texas Department of State Health Services, USA, with a focus on rabies case investigations and the Oral Rabies Vaccine Program along the Texas-Mexico border.; Deborah Nadal has a BA in South Asian Studies and a MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology. She has received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (one of the major international funding sources for anthropological research) to publish her PhD research as a book. The book "Rabies in the Streets. Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India" (2020, Penn State University Press) has received the English Language Book Award in the Soc

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint CABI / CAB International
  • Publication Date July 2023
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781800622951 / 1800622953
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 95 GBP
  • Pages248
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions244 X 172 mm
  • Reference Code5884

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