Merck/Mission Rabies (9/15/2021)

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Rabies is endemic in 67 countries and results in the death of a child at least every 9 minutes. Ninety-nine percent of all human deaths related to rabies are the result of dog bites. This webinar will outline the strategic approaches required to eliminate canine-transmitted rabies and showcase the projects implemented by Mission Rabies around the world.

{{webinarsregistrationpage::inside_the_webinar_2}} {{webinarsregistrationpage::inside_the_webinar_3}} Understand the principles behind initiating and running a practical, economic, and effective pilot rabies program How strategic implementation of such a program has to be tailored and adapted to geographic location, dog ownership demographics, and cultural attitudes toward dogs in the target area How epidemiologic evaluation of vaccine coverage is essential to the success of eliminating canine-transmitted rabies and how supporting the local development of core infrastructure through a robust surveillance capacity is a cornerstone when building toward sustainability {{webinarsregistrationpage::what_youll_learn_bullet_4}} {{webinarsregistrationpage::what_youll_learn_bullet_5}} {{webinarsregistrationpage::what_youll_learn_bullet_6}} Company Description

Merck Animal Health

Merck Animal Health is a research-driven pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of veterinary medicines, vaccines and services, as well as an extensive suite of digitally connected identification, traceability and monitoring products. Each year, Merck Animal Health, the makers of Nobivac® vaccines, supplies Mission Rabies with their full rabies vaccines needs to help carry out the organization’s life-saving work and support the World Health Organization’s goal of eliminating canine-mediated rabies worldwide by 2030. For more information, follow Merck Animal Health on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter at @MerckAH.

Mission Rabies

More than 99% of human rabies cases are caused by an infected dog bite. Once symptoms of the disease develop, it is fatal. Every year, millions of healthy dogs are inhumanely killed for fear of this deadly disease. However, this doesn't halt the spread of rabies, which causes around 59,000 deaths in people a year, the majority of which are children younger than 15. Mission Rabies is changing that. Science shows that the most effective long-term rabies control strategy is through vaccination of dogs in endemic areas, so we head to rabies hotspots and run mass vaccination and education programs, protecting both the human and canine populations. Crucially, it's working. Human deaths in our key project sites have all but been eliminated, and we'll keep going until it's zero all around the world.

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