VETS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dog Bite, Rhabdoviridae, Disease Surveillance
5 Aug 2018
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Rabies overview (handout 1 and online learning exercises) Rabies situation in usa and bali: promed transcripts, program for monitoring emerging diseases. Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious disease. But in community owned dogs- able to repeat: scarification, injected, identified animal- collars. Bali: would you use vaccines, yes, who gets vaccinated? (what species, dogs, how is vaccine administered, scarification/injected, would you cull animals, no, what other options can you think of. In 2008 the balinese government began culling unconfined dogs in. Badung and denpasar: strychnine-laced baits or blow darts, 108,000 dogs culled between 2008-2010. Also vaccinated dogs at fixed posts with locally produced vaccine (required booster at 3 months)- less expensive but doesn(cid:495)t work as well: approximately 40% dogs were vaccinated once between dec. 2009- march 2010: only 25% dogs were vaccine twice- herd immunity not useful. Outcome: by september 2010, rabies had spread and had been confirmed in.
