New Delhi: World Rabies Day is observed annually on 28 September to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating this dreaded disease. The day is observed on 28 September as it marks the death anniversary of French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who developed the first successful rabies vaccine.
Although fatal, rabies is preventable. It is a communicable disease that spreads to people and pets if they are bitten by a rabid animal. Dogs, bats, raccoons, skunks and foxes are the animals most commonly found with rabies.
What is Rabies Disease?
< अवधि शैली ="फ़ॉन्ट-वजन: 400;"> Rabies is a contagious and a viral zoonotic disease (infection that can naturally spread from vertebrate animals to humans) caused by the rabies virus, which infects the central nervous system and causes progressive and fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Becomes the reason for.
The two clinical forms of rabies are furious rabies, characterized by hyperactivity and hallucinations, and paralytic rabies characterized by paralysis and coma. If a person is not given immediate medical care after potentially exposed to rabies, the virus can reach the brain and result in death. In most cases, it is spread through the bite of an animal.
Rabies can be avoided and deaths from the disease can be prevented by administering vaccines and drugs and by appropriate use of technologies. Nevertheless, rabies kills thousands of people every year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), bites from an infected dog contribute to 99 percent of these cases.
The rabies transmission cycle can be successfully interrupted if proper awareness is spread. Animals should be vaccinated and people should seek treatment when bitten, and should be kept away from wildlife to prevent rabies.
Rabies causes approximately 59,000 deaths annually in more than 150 countries. Africa and Asia are the continents that account for 95 percent of cases. Half of the cases occur in children under the age of 15, with the rural poor population suffering the most. WHO has started a new course called Rabies. A health to impart knowledge about this disease.
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Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which includes a single dose of human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) and a rabies vaccine, is administered on the day of rabies exposure, followed by a re-vaccine regimen on days 3, 7 and 14. The dosage is given. PEP should include a combination of both HRIG and rabies vaccine if a person has never been vaccinated against rabies before. People who have been previously vaccinated or who are receiving a pre-exposure vaccine should only be vaccinated against rabies.
Why is World Rabies Day celebrated?
World Rabies Day, observed every year on 28 September, is the first and only global day of action and awareness dedicated to the prevention of rabies. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, Global Health Follow-up was launched in 2007 to bring together individuals, civil society and governments to raise awareness of rabies and increase prevention and control efforts around the world. Was.< /p>
The day provides an opportunity to understand our efforts to control the deadly disease, to remind ourselves that the fight against it is still on, and to reflect on how it affects the world.
< अवधि शैली ="फ़ॉन्ट-वजन: 400;"> A quarter of the reported rabies cases in the United States are due to dog bites acquired during international travel. The major health organizations that are working together to eliminate human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030 are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States Department of Agriculture, the World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
World Rabies Day 2021 Theme
September 28, 2021 will be the 15th World Rabies Day and this year’s theme is "Rabies: Facts, Not Fears". The theme focuses on dispelling facts and myths or misconceptions about rabies.
Doubts and misconceptions about vaccines are not new and when it comes to the rabies vaccine it is no different. The theme of this year’s World Rabies Day aims to dispel fear by sharing facts about rabies and dispelling misinformation and myths.
The idea is to make sure everyone is educated that rabies is a disease that is 99 percent fatal, yet 100 percent preventable.
Fake news and how it can negatively affect our rabies eradication efforts, and vaccine hesitancy and misconceptions about vaccination are current global issues affecting rabies eradication, and the topic is to remind the world of these issues. intends to.
<अवधि शैली="फ़ॉन्ट-वजन: 400;">The word ‘fear’ has three meanings in this year’s theme. The first meaning explains the general fear caused by the disease, the fear experienced by people when they encounter rabid animals, and the fear felt by people who live in communities infested with rabies. The second meaning explains the fear symptoms that people may experience when infected with rabies. The third meaning relates to the fear caused by fake news or myths, which instills in them the fear of vaccinating themselves as well as their animals.
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