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Tag Archives: rabies
75pc govt hospitals still using obsolete rabies vaccine
Faiza Ilyas in Dawn:
KARACHI, Dec 25: The government and the media have not yet given due priority to rabies that claims thousands of lives every year in the country.
One major reason of this high mortality is the fact that the government has not developed any strategy to address this serious public health issue.
Official apathy can [...]
It’s a dog’s life
Read an article by Benazir Shah about rabies in Pakistan.
Posted in asides Also tagged dogs, Pakistan, pakistan-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals-act, stray-dogs Leave a comment
How to eradicate canine rabies in 10 years or less
by Merritt Clifton
Originally published in the September 2007 issue of Animal People, a leading independent newspaper providing original investigative coverage of animal protection worldwide, the following article on eradicating canine rabies has been posted here with permission from the newspaper’s editorial team.
“Rabies could be gone in a decade,” BBC News headlined worldwide on September [...]
Key to rabies control lies in neutering dogs
Faiza Ilyas in DAWN:
KARACHI, Sept 28: The city government kills 72,000 to 75,000 stray dogs a year but does not invest in promoting or facilitating methods to neuter animals, which is a sustainable and humane method of controlling the stray dog population and reducing the threat of rabies. Of the 16 government-run veterinary centres in [...]
Rabies on the rise
Rabies on the rise
World Rabies Day
Killing dogs is not the solution!
Karachi – Successive city governments in Karachi have over the decades been killing stray dogs by strychnine poisoning and shooting with guns. They have even involved the general public in this from time to time by offering cash as reward for every dog killed. What they fail to comprehend is [...]
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The ‘orphan’ disease
Dr. Naseem Salahuddin in DAWN:
The need is to institute a programme for animal birth control and for the vaccination of domestic, community and stray dogs, which is the only proven method of animal rabies control. Under the law, it is mandatory for pet owners to get their animals vaccinated but as is common here there [...]
There has to be a better way than killing them
Report in The News:
More than 10,000 cases of dog bites are being reported in the city and its suburbs every year, indicating severity of the issue. This requires concerted efforts on part of the authorities to tackle it, like other countries of the world which celebrate World Rabies Day on September 8.
More here.
1.5m dog bite cases every year in country
Report in The Nation:
KARACHI (APP) – An estimated 1.5 million dog bite cases take place in the country every year and out of them 2000 to 5000 prove fatal. This was stated by President RIA (Pakistan) Foundation and member, WHO Expert Panel on Rabies, Dr. Naseem Salahuddin and Chairperson Subh-e-Nau, an environment and public health [...]
Low cost rabies vaccination drive