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Namibia reports oral rabies vaccination breakthrough for street dogs

November 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Oral vaccine achieves up to 78% immunization of dogs who cannot otherwise be vaccinated             WINDHOEK, Namibia––The Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water & Land Reform on November 11,  2021 told the Chinese national news agency Xinhua that it had successfully completed a first field trial of an oral rabies vaccine for dogs. The Namibian field […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Namibia, Rabies, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Albertina Shilongo, Arnon Shimshony, Charles Rupprecht, Franklin Loew, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Henry Wilde, Merritt Clifton, Oscar Larghi

U.S. issues rabies advisory for Bali visitors as control effort stumbles 

January 1, 2009 By Merritt Clifton

“The CDC advises travelers to take precautions” JAKARTA,  DENPASAR––The U.S. embassy to Indonesia on January 12,  2009 issued the outbreak notice that the Bali tourism industry had feared would be coming since mid-November 2008,  when reports first circulated about four human rabies deaths resulting from dog bites in two villages on the peninsula south of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, Henry Wilde, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton, rabies

Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak 

December 1, 2008 By Merritt Clifton

Four human victims DENPASAR,  Bali, Indonesia––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali.  Yachting,  fishing,  or trading goods,  the culprit apparently came by boat,  docking near Ungasan village,  where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Deborah Briggs, Henry Wilde, Janice Girardi, Made Mangku Pastika, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail, rabies

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