Rabies Elimination: Is It Feasible without Considering Wildlife?

Krishna Prasad Acharya; Rakesh Chand; Falk Huettmann; Tirth Raj Ghimire

doi:10.1155/2022/5942693

Rabies Elimination: Is It Feasible without Considering Wildlife?

J Trop Med. 2022 Jun 26:2022:5942693. doi: 10.1155/2022/5942693. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Krishna Prasad Acharya^{1

2}, Rakesh Chand², Falk Huettmann³, Tirth Raj Ghimire⁴

Affiliations

¹ Animal Quarantine Office-Kathmandu, Department of Livestock Services (DLS), Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu, Nepal.
² Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK.
³ -EWHALE Lab-Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology & Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), AK, USA.
⁴ Department of Zoology, Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Abstract

Rabies is a vaccine-preventable fatal viral disease that is zoonotic in nature. In this article, we provide a justification why the agreement of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) on The Global Strategic Plan to End Human Deaths from Dog-mediated Rabies by 2030 should also include a more holistic approach and ecologic views.

Publication types

Review