Health
Coping with COVID-19 need not derail progress against rabies – The Conversation Africa
The world is in the grip of a new pandemic which sets back the fight against rabies.
Before the emergence of the newest animal-borne disease, COVID-19, the world was in the last mile of eliminating one of the oldest animal-borne diseases rabies.
For around 4,000 years, humanity has been contending with this infectious disease. Rabies has the highest case fatality rate of any conventional infectious agent at close to 100%. And it is almost always transmitted to people through bites from infected dogs.
A vaccine for dogs was developed as early as 1799. Widespread vaccination and…
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