France reports a human rabies death due to bat associated rabies. The man died already in August 2019 of an unknown encephalitis. New diagnostic analysis using molecular tools revealed that the encephalitis was caused by European Bat Lyssavirus type 1 (EBLV-1). This is the 4th report of a human EBLV-1 case in Europe. The last human EBLV-1 was reported from Ukraine in 1985.
The newly launched One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa (OHRECA) at the
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) supports mass dog rabies vaccination campaigns in
Machakos County, Kenya.
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Rabies is among three priority Global Programmes diseases for which the OIE, with the support of the Biological Standards Commission (BSC), in 2020 identified the need to strengthen the laboratory capacity of Members. The Network called RABLAB comprises all OIE Reference Laboratories for Rabies and will
The BSC invited experts invited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Germany), to lead the network. As soon as the Covid-19 pandemic permits RABLAB will start operating.
An ongoing rabies outbreak in the state of Sarawak is keeping Malaysia in suspense. Since the first occurrence in 2017, canine rabies has taken the lives of dozens of people. On 11 November 2020 the 5th human rabies death has been reported this year.Read more here:http://outbreaknewstoday.com/malaysia-5th-human-rabies-case-of-2020-in-sarawak-37435/
In India, over 20,000 people die from rabies every year, a high percentage of them aged under 15.
Now that the world is the grip of a new pandemic scientisit are concerned that hard-earned achievemnts in rabies control could be at stake.Read more here:https://theconversation.com/coping-with-covid-19-need-not-derail-progress-against-rabies-146925https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430610/
On August 2, 2020, the international rabies community lost one of its pioneers in the field of rabies
research and control when Prof. Dr. Konrad Bögel, long-standing head of the Veterinary Public Health
Department at WHO, died at the age of 89.
World Zoonoses Day, July 6, spotlights diseases caused by viruses, bacteria and parasites that spread
between animals and people. In 1885 Louis Pasteur administered the first successful rabies vaccine,
135 years later zoonotic disease prevention has been catapulted up the global agenda by Covid-19.
In a new article Professor Sarah Cleaveland and Professor Alexander Trees offer their thoughts on why
tackling rabies is a good place to start stopping zoonotic diseases and living the idea to make
One Health a reality.
