A rabies lesson improves rabies knowledge amongst primary school children in Zomba, Malawi.

ABSTRACT: Rabies is an important neglected disease, which kills around 59,000 people a year. Over a third of these deaths are in children less than 15 years of age. Almost all human rabies deaths in Africa and Asia are due to bites from infected dogs. Despite the high efficacy of current rabies vaccines, awareness about rabies preventive healthcare is often low in endemic areas. It is therefore common for educational initiatives to be conducted in conjunction with other rabies control activities such as mass dog vaccination, however there are few examples where the efficacy of education activities has been assessed. Here, primary school children in Zomba, Malawi, were given a lesson on rabies biology and preventive healthcare. Subsequently, a mass dog vaccination programme was delivered in the same

SUBMITTER: Burdon Bailey JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5862537 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature