September 28, 2011 marked the five year anniversary of the World Rabies Day Campaign; the single largest concerted effort to raise global awareness about rabies and its prevention.
An estimated 600,000 viewers from 83 countries joined the 2nd Annual World Rabies Day Webinar. During the 16-hour event, 28 speakers from 13 different countries discussed many aspects of rabies and it control.
Ongoing research surveys on the availability of rabies biologicals for travelers and the global burden of rabies hope to provide a clearer picture of rabies.
The Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) today announces that preliminary data released this month at the OIE Global Conference on Eliminating Rabies has estimated 70,000 people worldwide die each year from rabies at a cost of US$4 billion.
