Title |
Emergency vaccination of rabies under limited resources – combating or containing?
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, March 2005
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-5-10 |
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Authors |
Dirk Eisinger, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Thomas Selhorst, Thomas Müller |
Abstract |
Rabies is the most important viral zoonosis from a global perspective. Worldwide efforts to combat the disease by oral vaccination of reservoirs have managed to eradicate wildlife rabies in large areas of central Europe and North-America. Thus, repeated vaccination has been discontinued recently on a geographical scale. However, as rabies has not yet been eradicated globally, a serious risk of re-introduction remains. What is the best spatial design for an emergency vaccination program -- particularly if resources are limited? Either, we treat a circular area around the detected case and run the risk of infected hosts leaving the limited control area, because a sufficient immunisation level has not yet been built up. Or, initially concentrate the SAME resources in order to establish a protective ring which is more distant from the infected local area, and which then holds out against the challenge of the approaching epidemic. |
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France | 1 | 2% |
Germany | 1 | 2% |
Israel | 1 | 2% |
India | 1 | 2% |
Canada | 1 | 2% |
China | 1 | 2% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 14% |
Environmental Science | 8 | 12% |
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 4 | 6% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
Other | 8 | 12% |
Unknown | 10 | 15% |