Abstract
The World Health Organization and collaborating agencies have set the goal of eliminating dog-mediated human rabies by 2030. Building on experience with rabies endemic countries, we constructed a user-friendly tool to help public health officials plan the resources needed to achieve this goal through mass vaccination of dogs.
Keywords:
Kenya; dogs; economics; elimination; prevention; rabies; vaccination; viruses; zoonoses.
Publication types
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Algorithms*
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Animals
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Disease Eradication / statistics & numerical data*
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Dog Diseases / epidemiology
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Dog Diseases / immunology
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Dog Diseases / prevention & control*
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Dog Diseases / virology
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Dogs
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Humans
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Kenya / epidemiology
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Mass Vaccination / organization & administration*
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Public Health / economics
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Public Health / statistics & numerical data
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Rabies / epidemiology
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Rabies / immunology
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Rabies / prevention & control
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Rabies / veterinary*
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Rabies Vaccines / administration & dosage*
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Rabies Vaccines / economics
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Rabies virus / immunology
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World Health Organization