Abstract
The World Health Organization and collaborating agencies have set the goal of eliminating dog-mediated human rabies by 2030. Building on experience with rabies endemic countries, we constructed a user-friendly tool to help public health officials plan the resources needed to achieve this goal through mass vaccination of dogs.
Highlights
Rabies kills ≈60,000 persons annually; most (≈99%) cases are transmitted by domestic dogs [1,2,3]
We aimed to realistically assess the global situation by highlighting the main challenges that might hamper elimination efforts. These global estimates can inform an important discussion about global and regional strategic planning and resource mobilization, they are not necessarily useful to inform country-level decision-making. We addressed this limitation by providing a user-friendly tool that requires only limited country-specific data to help countries plan toward the goal of eliminating dog rabies through mass dog vaccination
The tool is available for public use and already has been used in Haiti and Guatemala as part of a rabies elimination workshop held at the Centers for Disease Control and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Summary
Rabies kills ≈60,000 persons annually; most (≈99%) cases are transmitted by domestic dogs [1,2,3]. The World Health Organization recommends that at least 70% of the dog population be vaccinated to control and potentially eliminate dog rabies [3]. During 2016, we estimated the resources potentially required to eliminate dog rabies globally by 2030 [7].
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