Merck-MR (11/11/2020)
One Health in Action: Eliminating Rabies Effectively
What You'll Learn
- The etiology and clinical signs of rabies
- The current impact of rabies around the world
- Effective disease control and management
- Health solutions in disease control
- Opportunities for local action to aid in the elimination of rabies
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.
One Health in Action: Eliminating Rabies Effectively
What You'll Learn
- The etiology and clinical signs of rabies
- The current impact of rabies around the world
- Effective disease control and management
- Health solutions in disease control
- Opportunities for local action to aid in the elimination of rabies
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.