University contributes 180 volunteers to help fight rabies

DENPASAR, Bali - Udayana University (Unud) has mobilized 180 volunteers comprising 150 students and 30 lecturers to take part in a drive to vaccinate people against rabies and round up stray dogs in Denpasar and Badung district."We are ready to mobilize even more volunteers,...

Rabies kills over 50 Angolan children in 3 months

Isn't there anything the world community can do to help this situation? It appears that as all long as the victims are black children the world turns their back? Hmm."Rabies has killed over 50 children in Angola's capital Luanda in the past three months, raising alarm in a...

Core horse vaccines identified in US review

"Revised guidelines for the use of horse vaccines in the United States have named tetanus, rabies, West Nile virus, and Eastern/Western encephalomyelitis as key diseases against which horses should be inoculated. The Infectious Disease Committee of the American Association of...

The Extinction of Rabies

"Rabies could be wiped out across the world within a decade if sufficient vaccination programmes are carried out on domestic dogs, according to experts.  Edinburgh University's Royal Dick Vet School staff have carried out extensive research into the disease, which kills...

Rabid Religious Fervor

Flagellant contracts rabies, shares blade.Flagellation, self-mutilation and crucifixion re-enactments are widely practiced around the world, but such activities carry risks beyond the obvious: rabies is transmitted though blood infection. The frightening element here is the...

Rabid cheetah bites BBC presenter

"BBC presenter Simon King, best known for the Big Cat Diary programmes, was attacked by a rabid cheetah while filming in Kenya, it has emerged. King was filming the story of orphaned cheetah cub Toki when a wild female ran at him, leaping up at his body. Both he and assistant...