The Australian Government will gift up to 200,000 canine rabies vaccines alongside financial assistance support to Timor-Leste Government in their roll out of a canine rabies vaccination campaign to protect communities and their dogs from rabies.
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\nAustralia\u2019s Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Beth Cookson said the Australian Government was committed to improving rabies control in our neighbouring countries by supporting surveillance, vaccination and community education activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cRabies is invariably fatal to mammals including humans,\u201d Dr Cookson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least 59,000 people are killed from rabies globally a year, and 40% of these people are children.<\/p>\n
Australia and Timor-Leste are free from dog-mediated rabies. However, it is present in parts of Indonesia, such as Bali and more recently West Timor. <\/p>\n
\u200b\u201cTo mitigate the risk to human and animal health, Timor-Leste\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Forestry is undertaking a canine rabies vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cMass vaccination of dogs is the most cost-effective and practical way of reducing the impact of human rabies.<\/p>\n
\u201cCollaborating with Timor-Leste not only supports our neighbour to control dog rabies and prevent deaths in communities, but also helps keep Australia free of the disease.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis work will help to achieve the \u2018Zero by 30\u2019 strategy, which is a collective goal of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organisation for Animal Health to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n
Find out more at http:\/\/www.agriculture.gov.au\/agriculture-land\/animal\/health\/rabies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Australian Government will gift up to 200,000 canine rabies vaccines alongside financial assistance support to Timor-Leste Government in their roll out of a canine rabies vaccination campaign to protect communities and their dogs from rabies. \u200b Australia\u2019s Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Beth Cookson said the Australian Government was committed to improving rabies control in […]<\/p>\n