Accessed on 07.03.2023 A – Z of Rabies – A guide to the world´s deadliest disease Mission Rabies

Children are at high risk of dog bites and contracting rabies. Forty percent of reported rabies cases worldwide are children under the age of fifteen. In our project areas, the proportion of children dying is often even higher. Rabies most often persists in poor communities and rural regions of deve ... loping countries in Africa and Asia. If the risks are widely understood and appropriate dog bite treatment is well known – rabies is 100% preventable. more

2018 has been one of the most successful years ever for Mission Rabies. We are on the cusp of having almost vaccinated one million dogs in global rabies hotspots, we’ve educated over two million children and we’re seeing a dramatic reduction in both human and canine rabies in all our flagship ... project sites!! The app is now developing in conjunction with CDC in the US, our work is being published at an unprecedented rate and we’re still only four years old! more