Rabies Epidemiology, Control and Prevention Studies
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 115
Special Issue Editors
Interests: veterinary epidemiology; evolution; lyssaviruses; diagnostics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rabies, despite having been present for thousands of years, is still a neglected disease. Asia and Africa bear the highest burden of this neglected disease. According to estimations from models, at least 59,000 succumb to this deadly disease every year. For the last 10 years (since 2015), the focus has been on eliminating dog-mediated human rabies by the year 2030. In this context, countries have developed specific dog rabies elimination control programs, some of which have been endorsed by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). In these programs, emphasis has been placed on the One Health approach for rabies control. This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts on the broad subject of the One Health approach toward rabies control, and clearly research findings on epidemiology, control, and prevention will be appropriate for this Special Issue.
Dr. Claude Sabeta
Dr. Philip P. Mshelbwala
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rabies
- lyssavirus
- epidemiology
- control
- One Health
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