IVSA Campaign on World Rabies Day 2013

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ivsa campaign on world rabies day 2013 Vet Students fight against Rabies SCOH Standing Committee on One Health INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION a project by SCOH 12 local events worldwide Thessaloniki, Greece Thessaly, Greece Pennsylvania, USA Texas, USA Helsinki, Finland Nagpur, India Rampur, Nepal Dhaka, Bangladesh Kelantan, Malaysia Sidi Thabet, Tunisia Portugal Japan Official partner: Λύσσα Rabies Raivotauti Penyakit Anjing Gila 世界狂犬病デー Raiva jolatonko www.rabiesalliance.org www.ivsa.org

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ivsa campaign on world rabies day 2013

Vet Students fight against Rabies

SCOHStanding Committee on One HealthINTERNATIONAL VETERINARY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

a project by SCOH

12 local events worldwideThessaloniki, GreeceThessaly, GreecePennsylvania, USATexas, USAHelsinki, FinlandNagpur, IndiaRampur, NepalDhaka, BangladeshKelantan, MalaysiaSidi Thabet, TunisiaPortugalJapan

Official partner:

Λύσσα

Rabies

Raivotauti

Penyakit Anjing Gila

世界狂犬病デー

Raiva

jolatonko

www.rabiesalliance.org www.ivsa.org

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THE SITUATION now

Every year more than 20,000 people die in India due to Rabies. Thisaccounts for nearly 36% of the total deaths due to Rabies worldwide.

Most industrialised nations have e�ectively controlled Rabies. Eventhough the best methods for the prevention of Rabies are available in

India, the penetration of awareness regarding the use of these isstill lacking. IVSA India and WARD Foundation is leading the waragainst the Rabies Menace in India through advocacy, research,

awareness creation and more.IVSA India Program: Competition Drawing, Poster,Essay | Rally |Lecture |

Tv Show |radio talk |Media News paper |Anti rabies vaccination |Pathnatya(Dramma)on street |Le�ets pomlets |Extension activity, etc.

IVSA India

“In Portugal, rabies is considered o�cially eradicated since 1956.Since 1926, Portuguese veterinary services have systematically maintained a mandatory annual vaccination campaign. It was the e�ectiveness of these campaigns that allowed eradication of this disease, making Portugal one of the �rst countries in the world to obtain the status of «country o�cially free of rabies». There is also the requirement to register and license all canids and proof of rabies vaccination is a requirement for the issuance of the license.So, to celebrate this day, next wednesday the portuguese Veterinary Students Association will do lectures about it in all Veterinary schools. During one hour, the teachers will speak about national rabies situation and any other subjects on this topic.”

IVSA Portugal

Texas has the most rabies cases than any other state in the United States. Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine students are celebrating World Rabies Day by providing an annual low cost rabies vaccine clinic in conjunction with a local blessing of the animals event at St. Francis Episcopal church in College Station, TX on October 5th, 2013. College Station is an agricultural community where many cats, dogs, and livestock are exposed topotentially infected wildlife. Students have the opportunity to practice preforming physical exams and give rabies vaccine to cats and dogs as well as speak with clients about the devastating e�ects of rabies. All proceeds are donated locally to the vet's school Good Samaritan Fund.

IVSA (SAVMA) Texas A&MIVSA Thessaloniki & IVSA Thessaly

Vet students throughout the world come up against Rabies

Japan is one of the few rabies-free countries. Although 3 imported cases of human rabies were seen in 1970 and 2006, no other cases

have been reported since 1957. The Rabies Prevention Law, enacted in Japan in 1950, establishes the obligation to vaccinate and register

dogs in Japan. The law worked very well for rabies prevention in Japan. On the other hand, it’s getting a big problem that most Japanese people

know little about the risk of rabies, causing the decrease of the rate of vaccination for their pets. This time, IVSA-Japan is planning to inform p

eople about rabies and encourage vaccination through the Internet on World Rabies Day 2013.

ivsa japan

Rabies was absent from Greek Country since 1987 when the last animal-crust was detected. After so many years, prevention measures were more loose and

the only prevention measure left, was the obligatory vaccination for lyssa-virus to pets. But in October 2012 a rabies crust was ditected to a red-fox. Since then,

27 more crusts were recognised to animals(28-8-2013). Only one concerns a cat, three concern dogs and all the other concern the red fox. After the �rst crust, a

plan for mass per os vaccination for wild carnivorous was elaborated. Furthermore the country was divided to high-medium-low-very low risk regions.In addition there

are ristrict measures for locomotion of animals from third countries or movement of household animals between high risk-non tisk regions. To decrease the risk of

appearance of rabies in cities the stray animals population stated to be vaccinated as intensively as possible. Last,but not least,there is a monitoring programme for dead

wild animals in order to track the possible ''invisible'' rabies-deaths. Today the rabies-situationin Greece is thought to be under control, but the unknown or uncontrolled situation to

neighbor countries makes the landscape really fade and as a result there is no space for ''loose''.So IVSA Thessaloniki under consideration of all these decided to address to a population-risk really sensitive with animals: KIDS. As a result there will be a ''Rabie Information Day'' to local

schools for the general and individual measures of protection against lyssa-virus!

Rabies is one of the many serious public health problems in Nepal.It provokes great public concern since most Nepalese people readily identify this disease with a painful and prolonged death without options for successful treatment once clinical signs appears. There is huge population of stray dogs. Annually 200 people dies of Rabies in Nepal. Very few owned dogs gets regular vaccination against Rabies.Dogs in Nepal live short,di�cult lives. The local authorities have traditionally controlled the number of roaming dogs by the use of strychnine poison. Thus we are going to organize a mass anti-rabies vaccination program as well as awareness program on the WRD in the rural area of Chitwan where there is no history of vaccination against Rabies before and recently outbreak was reported.

IVSA NEPAL

In Finland rabies is a problem almost only on the east-border. It is detected in wildlife such as foxes and raccoon dogs, which come to Finland mostly from Russia. Along the east-border rabies is prevented from spreading to the other parts of the country by spreading bait vaccines by aeroplanes. Because we don't have street dogs, our situation is quite good and in pets rabies is not a big problem. There have been some cases the last few years, all of the diseased animals were imported dogs and horses. The majority of our dogs are vaccinated, it is obligatory to vaccine dogs before being allowed to take part in competitions and other happenings. Also to import animals form abroad dogs have to bevaccinated, though smuggling happens especially from Estonia and Russia. We vet students get vaccinated for free too, because of a positive �nding in a horse a few years back. As far as I know, it has never been detected in humans.

IVSA FINLAND

Rabies is one of the oldest recognized zoonotic diseases in human. Once the clinical signs develop , it is known as universally fatal. Rabies is a major public health problem

in Bangladesh, where most of the people live in rural areas. However there is a little epidemiological information available for Bangladesh. Besides of that Bangladeshi people

are very lack of knowledge about the disease called Rabies. In a survey , it was estimated that in Bangladesh , 166590 people are bitten by animal in every year of Bangladesh. And

the total No. of death is 2100 per year in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh , Rabies has a signi�cant e�ects in Livestock Economy. There are so many domestic animals die in every year due to

Rabies. Most of the animal specially calf, goat and sheep are bitten by stray dogs while grazing in �eld. In our country there are several steps are taken to control street dogs for the prevention

of Rabies in cities, but rural villages are still far from that measures. Through World Rabies Day 2013 , we would like to aware the mass people of Bangladesh for control of Rabies. And I

hope Bangladesh will be free from Rabies in between 2020.

IVSA BANGLADESH

IVSA tunisia

IVSA (savma) pennsylvania

IVSA MALAYSIA

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what to do

IVSA IndiaWHERE? Nagpur, IndiaWHEN? 28th September 2013, 10.30 (India time)WHAT? Stray dog Vaccination ,Lectures ,Open Events to inform People (in collaboration with Wild life Conservation and Agro-Rural Development Foundation)PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dr. Mangesh Nakade (Local President)

IVSA Portugal

IVSA (SAVMA) Texas A&M

IVSA Thessaloniki

Rabies kills around 55.000 people a year!

ivsa japan

IVSA NEPAL

IVSA FINLAND

IVSA BANGLADESH

IVSA tunisia

IVSA (savma) pennsylvania

IVSA MALAYSIA

WHERE? Thessaloniki, GreeceWHEN? 27th September 2013, 10.00 (Greece time)WHAT? Primary Schools Awareness CampaignPROJECT DIRECTOR: Eleni Tomboulidou (Local President)

IVSA THESSALY

WHERE? Karditsa, GreeceWHEN? 30th September 2013, WHAT? Open event to inform peoplePROJECT DIRECTOR: Dimitris Karagiannidis (Local President)

WHERE? All veterinary Schools of PortugalWHEN? 25th September 2013, 17.00 (Portugal time)WHAT? LecturesPROJECT DIRECTOR: Micael Costa (Local President)

WHERE? St Francis Episcopal Church in Bryan, Texas, USAWHEN? 10th October 2013, 09.00 (Texas time)WHAT? teaming up with the local school chapter of Shelter Vets to give physical exams and rabies vaccines to the general public (as well as give info about rabies and the importance of vaccines)PROJECT DIRECTOR: Chloé Matelski (Local President)

WHERE? PennVet-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAWHEN? 3rd October 2013, 12.00 (Pennsylvania time)WHAT? Open event (distribution of brochures) in collaboration with The Local One Health Commitee and Parasitology Groups PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ilana Yablonovich (Local One Health Committee Member)

WHERE? Rampur, Chitwan, NepalWHEN? 28th September 2013, 07.00 (Nepal time)WHAT? Stray dogs vaccinations, with the support of Institute Of Agriculture And Animal Science(IAAS), Agriculture And Forestry University(AFU) and the collaboration with the Rotary International and Rotaract Club Of Narayanghad.PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sudhir Yavad (Local President)

WHERE? JapanWHEN? 28th September 2013WHAT? Internet awareness campaignPROJECT DIRECTOR: Yukiko Nakatsu (Local Exchange Officer)

WHERE? Shidi Thabte, TunisiaWHEN? 28th September 2013, 10.30 (Tunisia time)WHAT? Awareness campaign in primary school and also wear a blue band in the vet hospital (official color of IVSA logo) where it's written “against rabies,vaccinate your dog etc.” & distribution of some flyers and talk with pet owners to make people aware about the necessity of vaccination.PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ines Ben Jebara (Local President)

WHERE? Helsinki, FinlandWHEN? 28th September 2013WHAT? LecturesPROJECT DIRECTOR: Lea Rensch (Local President)

WHERE? Dhaka, BangladeshWHEN? 28th September 2013, 09.10 (Bangladesh time)WHAT? Open event to the people, in collaboration with Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU)PROJECT DIRECTOR: Koushik Das (Local President)

WHERE? Kota Bahru, Kelantan, MalaysiaWHEN? 28th September 2013, 08.00 (Malaysia time)WHAT? Rabies Awareness Run & Rabies Awareness Talk with the support of the Faculty Of Veterinary Medicine-University Malaysia KelantanPROJECT DIRECTOR: Siti Shakinna Chu (Local Exchange Officer)

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RaBIES THROUGH THE WORLD

We can vanish Rabies from this world. Organization, collaboration and constant fight against it, is

the only sollution.

by WHO (World Health Organization)