Abstract
Dog Ecology and Management in Niger State, Nigeria: A Basic Tool for Rabies Control
Highlights
Dog population dynamics have a major impact upon the effectiveness of rabies control strategies
There appears to be an increased in dog population with close proximity of dogs to humans in the recent years in Niger State as compared with two decades ago
Unlike which showed that there is a ratio of 1:5.4 dogs to human ratio in Niger State (Table 1)
Summary
Dog population dynamics have a major impact upon the effectiveness of rabies control strategies. The WHO "Guidelines for dog rabies control" has stressed the need for research on dog populations and ecology in urban and rural areas [1]. Various workers have applied different techniques for estimating dog population densities These techniques include total streetdog count [1], estimates from the rate of capture [3] and estimates from rate of re-capture of the same dog [4]. In Nigeria, the first report of human rabies was in 1912 and that of canine rabies was in 1925 [5] and a number of ecological studies have been conducted using questionnaires and street dog counts in order to estimate the dog population of some states.
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