Special Issue

Topic: Adopt One Health, Stop Rabies: Current Progress for Dog-mediated Rabies Elimination by 2030

A Special Issue of One Health & Implementation Research

ISSN 2769-6413 (Online)

Submission deadline: 20 Apr 2024

Guest Editor(s)

Prof. Dr. Charles E. Rupprecht
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.

Special Issue Introduction

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Rabies is an acute, progressive, viral encephalitis. This zoonosis is one of the oldest recognized infectious diseases but remains neglected despite a global distribution. Although all mammals are believed susceptible, the domestic dog is the major reservoir. Having a case fatality approaching unity, humans still succumb today due to major health disparities, particularly in lesser developed nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. During 2015, the FAO, OIE and WHO recognized the need for a focused One Health approach, dedicated towards the elimination of human rabies by 2030. The 'Zero by Thirty' (ZBT) focuses upon the combination of stopping human fatalities after the bite of a rabid dog by the administration of modern postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) and viral prevention at the source by the mass vaccination of dogs (MVD). This Special Issue of One Health & Implementation Research (OHIR) showcases the progress over the past decade, anticipates continued success, discusses current limitations, and highlights future opportunities expected. Enhanced laboratory-based rabies surveillance, improved PEP regimens, better community engagement, technology for monitoring MVD success, oral vaccination for free-ranging dogs, creation of local champions, prioritization with relevant governance, inter-sectoral collaboration with regional partners, and engagement of global stakeholders are a few of the topical areas of relevance for consideration. Recognizing the trans-disciplinary nature of this arena, we invite all animal control officers, anthropologists, diagnosticians, economists, epidemiologists, historians, modelers, physicians, policy makers, veterinarians, virologists, wildlife biologists, etc. with a passion for achieving the ZBT to communicate their work in OHIR.

Keywords

Lyssavirus, one health, prophylaxis, rabies, vaccination, zoonosis

Submission Deadline

20 Apr 2024

Submission Information

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Submission Deadline: 20 Apr 2024
Contacts: Hanlie Han, Science Editor, Hanlie@ohirjournal.com

Published Articles

A brief history of rabies in Haiti until the adoption of the One Health approach for its epidemiological surveillance and control

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2023.37 26 Dec 2023
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Rabies exposure and prophylaxis among dog owners in Ogun State, Nigeria: a descriptive and categorical analysis of knowledge, attitudes and practices

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2023.29 13 Dec 2023
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Reemergence of arctic-like rabies virus in a rabies-free area in the Amur river basin

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2023.19 29 Oct 2023
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Using Integrated Bite Case Management to estimate the burden of rabies and evaluate surveillance in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2023.02 30 Aug 2023
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Lessons learned from the history of rabies vaccination in Colombia using the one health approach

Open Access Opinion DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2023.01 24 Jun 2023
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Assessing bait acceptance of local dogs, oral rabies vaccination success and human contact risk in Bali, Indonesia

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2022.32 24 Apr 2023
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WHO’s latest rabies recommendations and guidance save lives and reduce the cost of treatment

Open Access Commentary DOI: 10.20517/ohir.2022.46 21 Mar 2023
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