Rabies Today
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A podcast that looks at current issues surrounding a very old disease. Created and produced by United Against Rabies. Hosted by Professor Katie Hampson of the University of Glasgow with guests from around the world. Find out more at www.unitedagainstrabies.org
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S2E8 All About Awareness
In the run up to World Rabies Day, an urgent need to ramp up public and health worker knowledge about this dangerous and deadly disease, not only in rabies-endemic countries but also in countries…
S2E7 Ukraine, Tanzania and new tools and resources
In Ukraine, rabies is rising among abandoned pets, and could spread to surrounding countries in Europe. We hear an urgent call for mass vaccination and sterilisation of dogs to avert catastrophe. In…
S2E6 Rabies in Conflict Zones
The battle against rabies is complex and difficult. But imagine having to fight rabies in a country at war. In this episode, we meet three people working in enormously challenging circumstances in…
S2E5 Rabies Control: Don't Wait, Do Something
South African rabies expert Kevin Le Roux told colleages at the United Against Rabies Forum in Cape Town that rabies data will never be perfect, so what is vital is to act to control the disease and…
S2E4 World Rabies Day: Working with Communities
World Rabies Day is September 28th, an important day for community mobilization around dog vaccination and raising public awareness. But what's really successful when working with communities? And…
S2E3 Rabies in Africa
Rabies still kills at least 25,000 people each year in Africa, many of them children. It also kills huge numbers of livestock animals at great cost to farming and pastoral communities.In this…
S2E2 Gavi's Vaccine Rollout
Human rabies vaccines for PEP save lives by stopping the deadly virus reaching the central nervous system. But these lifesaving vaccines are often unavailable or unaffordable, especially in…
S2E1 Rabies in South East Asia
Dog-mediated rabies is on the rise in Southeast Asia, including in areas that were previously rabies free. Could a new ASEAN strategy finally turn the tide in the region to address low dog…
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Professor Katie Hampson will be back soon with a new series of Rabies Today. Stay tuned! Send us Fan MailWe would love to hear from you. You can find us on X/Twitter: UARForumLinkedIn: United Against…
S1E6 Zero by 30: Dead or Alive?
"Zero by 30" is the Global Strategic Plan to achieve zero human deaths from dog- mediated rabies by 2030. It was published in 2018, well before the pandemic. With just 7 years to go, can “Zero by 30”…
S1E5 Rabies, Dogs and Wildlife
In the Americas, canine rabies variants have infected several wildlife species which now maintain independent cycles of transmission. In Namibia, kudu have emerged as unlikely species to be…
S1E4 Fight Rabies: Go Local
Professor Katie Hampson and guests discuss the diverse strategies they employ at local level to tackle rabies. From education to religion and local customs to politics, context is critical. With Dr…
S1E3 Dogs Dogs Dogs
Dogs and people have lived together for thousands of years. As the main source of rabies infections in humans (over 90%), controlling rabies in dogs is essential to ending human rabies deaths. In…
S1E2 Reporting Rabies
Only a fraction of human rabies cases are reported to the WHO's Global Health Observatory and the quality of national data on rabies deaths is extremely variable. In Episode 2 in this series,…
S1E1 The Treatment Gap
We've had life-saving vaccines to prevent rabies from killing people for over 100 years, yet millions of people, mainly in Africa and Asia, still lack access to these essential medicines. Join…
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Rabies Today has published 15 episodes since May 2023, covering topics in Education, Health & Fitness.
Rabies Today is currently declining with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 19m.
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