WHO expert consultation on rabies
Subtitle: second report
Contributors: World Health Organization
Series: WHO technical report series -- 982; Technical report series (World Health Organization) -- 982
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Vaccin antirabique; Prévention des maladies; Rage; Rabies Vaccines; Rabies; Prevention & control; Prevention; Rabies vaccines; Hondsdolheid; Prévention; Vaccins antirabiques; Congresses
Other titles: World Health Organization Expert Consultation on Rabies
Description: "Although there is debate about the estimated health burden of rabies, the estimates of direct mortality and the DALYs due to rabies are among the highest of the neglected tropical diseases. Poor surveillance, underreporting in many developing countries, frequent misdiagnosis of rabies, and an absence of coordination among all the sectors involved are likely to lead to underestimation of the scale of the disease It is clear, however, that rabies disproportionately affects poor rural communities, and particularly children. Most of the expenditure for post- exposure prophylaxis is borne by those who can least afford it. As a result of growing dog and human populations, the burden of human deaths from rabies and the economic costs will continue to escalate in the absence of concerted efforts and investment for control. Since the first WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies in 2004, WHO and its network of collaborating centres on rabies, specialized national institutions, members of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Rabies and partners such as the Gates Foundation, the Global Alliance for Rabies Control and the Partnership for Rabies Prevention, have been advocating the feasibility of rabies elimination regionally and globally and promoting research into sustainable cost-effective strategies. Those joint efforts have begun to break the cycle of rabies neglect, and rabies is becoming recognized as a priority for investment. This Consultation concluded that human dog-transmitted rabies is readily amenable to control, regional elimination in the medium term and even global elimination in the long term. A resolution on major neglected tropical diseases, including rabies, prepared for submission to the World Health Assembly in May 2013 aims at securing Member States' commitment to the control, elimination or eradication of these diseases. Endorsement of the resolution would open the door for exciting advances in rabies prevention and control."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "The WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies met in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18-20 September 2012"--page 1.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The burden of rabies; title: Classification of lyssaviruses; title: Pathogenesis; title: Diagnosis; title: Management of patients before and after death; title: Vaccines and rabies immunoglobulin for humans; title: Vaccines for animals; title: prevention of human rabies; title: National programmes for dog rabies control; title: Prevention and control of rabies in wild animals; title: Rabies surveillance; title: Rabies-free countries or areas; title: International movement of animals; title: Global and regional activities on rabies; title: Research.