"This book focuses on the challenges and successes of rabies control and prevention in Asia. Written by a multidisciplinary group of academics and practitioners, it grounds chapters in solid scientific theory as well as providing numerous examples of lessons learned across countries at different levels of control and elimination"--
Although an effective human rabies vaccine has existed since 1885, rabies continues to kill an estimated 59,000 people every year. Sixty percent of these human deaths occur in Asia. The number of animals, especially dogs, who die of rabies is uncalculated. To work towards the global target of eliminating dog-mediated human rabies deaths, the rabies community is applying the One Health approach by jointly focusing on humans and dogs.
Written by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and rabies control program 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. The book:
- 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 elimination;
- brings together and highlights the practices of a strong, international rabies network that operates 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, public health institutes, wildlife research centers and academia, this book is an invaluable resource for rabies practitioners and scholars, but also those working in the wider fields of disease control and cross-sectoral One Health.
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Suitable for postgraduate and early-career infectious disease practitioners and researchers, as well as public health officials.
Chapter 1: Global Dog and Human Rabies Control Efforts from Ancient
Times to 2030 and Beyond Section I: One Health Networks and Working Models
Chapter 2: FAO, WOAH and WHO Working Together in the Asia Pacific Region to
Eliminate Dog-Mediated Human Rabies by 2030
Chapter 3: Emerging Opportunities
for Enhanced Regional One Health Approach in the Prevention, Control and
Elimination of Rabies and Other Zoonoses in Southeast Asia
Chapter 4: One
Health Approach to Control Canine Rabies in Thailand: The Chiang Mai Model
Chapter 5: The World Café: Strengthening Rabies Prevention with the
GovernmentAcademia Collaboration in Japan Section II: Human Post-Exposure
Prophylaxis
Chapter 6: Animal Bite Treatment Centres in the Philippines:
Functions and Challenges Experienced in the Delivery of Rabies Post-Exposure
Prophylaxis
Chapter 7: The Pooling Strategy in Himachal Pradesh, India: An
Innovation for Rabies Post-Exposure Prophylaxis During Crisis of Shortage of
Life-Saving Biologicals Section III: Mass Dog Vaccination
Chapter 8:
Investigation of Rabies Control in Free-Roaming Dogs: A Mathematical
Modelling Approach from Bangladesh
Chapter 9: Rabies in the Greater Manila
Area and Region IV-B of the Philippines and the Potential Impact of
Age-Targeted Dog Vaccination
Chapter 10: Oral Vaccination of Dogs as a
Complementary Tool for Canine Rabies Control: The Thai Protocol
Chapter 11:
Immunogenicity Following Dog Rabies Vaccination: A Sri Lankan Experience
Section IV: Dog-Human Ecology and Relationships
Chapter 12: The Role of Dog
Ecology in Canine Rabies Prevention and Control in Asia - Lessons from
Indonesia and the Oceanic Region
Chapter 13: Ecology of Dogs in Sri Lanka and
Transmission of Rabies Among Dogs and Wildlife
Chapter 14: The Humane
Management of Dog Populations and the Contribution to Rabies Elimination
Chapter 15: Mass Dog Vaccination and Animal Birth Control: A One Health Pilot
Project in Karachi, Pakistan
Chapter 16: Rabies in China: The Role of Rabies
Ecologies and Pet Activism Section V: Diagnosis and Surveillance
Chapter 17:
Comparison of Different Brain Collection Techniques and Evaluation of Mixed
Brain Tissues as a Specimen for Rabies Diagnosis
Chapter 18: High Throughput
Techniques to Understand Evolution and Transmission Trends of Rabies Virus in
Asian Countries
Chapter 19: Maintenance of Rabies-Free Status in Japan for 65
Years and its Application of Lesson Learned to Countries towards Zero Human
Deaths
Chapter 20: Conclusions
Vanessa Slack (Edited By) Vanessa Slack holds 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 then worked 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. She is currently working at the University of Michigan as an Associate Research Laboratory Technician conducting statewide disease surveillance through wastewater monitoring.
Deborah Nadal (Edited By) Deborah Nadal holds a BA in South Asian Studies and an MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology. The book that resulted from her PhD research, titled "Rabies in the Streets. Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India" (2020, Penn State University Press), has won the English Language Book Award in the Social Sciences at the International Convention of Asia Scholars, and an Honorable Mention from the New Millennium Book Award Committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. She then received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission for a postdoctoral research project on rabies at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine of the University of Glasgow, UK, and the Center for One Health Research of the University of Washington, USA. Currently, she teaches and does research on multispecies health at the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She continues to collaborate with the University of Glasgow, and the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization as well, on rabies-related projects.
Sandul Yasobant (Edited By) Sandul Yasobant has completed his health education and public health training at Utkal University (Odisha) and Sri Ramachandra University (Chennai) in India. He has completed the doctoral programme 'One Health & Urban Transformation' at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University Bonn Germany, and obtained a public health doctoral degree from the medical faculty, University of Bonn, Germany, in 2020. He holds two prestigious fellowships: Operational Research Fellowship-2015, India, and EBQ- VLIR-UOS Scholar-2016, Belgium. He is currently working as a technical officer (research) at the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), India.
Florence Cliquet (Edited By) Florence Cliquet obtained her PhD in Immunology and Biochemistry at the Université de Lille, in France. She has been working on rabies since 1992. Currently, she is the Research Director of the OIE / WHO / EU Reference Laboratory for rabies, Anses-Nancy Rabies and Wildlife Laboratory, France. She has published more than 200 hundred academic papers, most of them on rabies.
Waqas Ahmad (Edited By) Waqas Ahmad trained as a veterinarian at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, in Pakistan, and received his PhD from the Institute of Zoonoses, Jilin University, Changchun, China. He has contributed to about 20 scientific publications. He is currently working as an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Narowal Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.
Nihal Pushpakumara (Edited By) Nihal Pushpakumara, BVSc., MSc., MPM., MPhil., trained in veterinary and veterinary epidemiology at the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration in Colombo, Sri Lanka and the University of Peradeniya, in Sri Lanka. Since 2016, he has worked as a senior wildlife veterinary surgeon at the Wildlife Veterinary Hospital, Eastern Region, Sri Lanka.
Sumon Ghosh (Edited By) Sumon Ghosh is a veterinarian working as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He worked in the Infectious Diseases Division of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, in Bangladesh (icddr,b). Dr Ghosh has also been involved in research on rabies with the Directorate General of Health Services of Bangladesh. He has collaborated actively with researchers from diverse disciplines on several projects of public health importance in Bangladesh. His expertise and research interests lie in the realm of infectious diseases, especially emerging and re-emerging pathogens in tropical environments, global health, medical microbiology, disease control, and vaccination. Dr Ghosh did his graduation in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Chittagong Veterinary & Animal Sciences University in Bangladesh and post-graduation (MS) from the same institute. He has received a fellowship from the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Bangladesh as Post Graduate Research Grant. He has been short-listed for World Rabies Day Award 2019 by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, USA.
