Mass dog vaccination program to combat rabies
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A humane and sustainable mass dog vaccination program to combat rabies is proving successful in pilots across China.
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A humane and sustainable mass dog vaccination program to combat rabies is proving successful in pilots across China. |
World Animal Protection, working with the Chinese Animal Disease Control Centre (CADC), began projects in China in 2012 in Shaanxi, Guizhou and Anhui Provinces. To date, 750 veterinarians have been trained and over 90,000 dogs vaccinated.
Each year around the world, millions of dogs are cruelly culled due to people's fear of rabies, in an ineffective bid to control the spread of the disease, which kills 55,000 people annually.
World Animal Protection is working to end the needless suffering of dogs and to tackle rabies by implementing the only effective alternative – mass dog vaccination. In addition to China, World Animal Protection has delivered mass vaccinations in Bali, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Kenya and Zanzibar.
Mass vaccinations protect dogs and communities and are endorsed by the World Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
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