Indonesia & attempts to control Rabies

... ny good friend, Dr Deborah Briggs, the executive director of the Alliance for Rabies Control in Edinburgh, Scotland, along with Dr Henry Wilde of the Chulalongkorn Univerity in Bangkok, Thailand commented recently in a posting to Pro-Med Mail of the failed attempts to control rabies outbreaks by the mass culling of dogs in enzootic areas of Rabies outbreaks.

... experience has shown over the years of attempts to cull large dog populations, e.g. 500,000 at a time are to no avail. Rabies continues to be a problem especially on those islands where extermination programs have taken place. Not only is the culling of large dog populations gruesome and barbaric, it will not reduce the incidence of Rabies.

... what does work is the vaccination of at least 70 % of the prevailing dog population along with the continual monitoring of disease outbreaks.

... the above is an abstract of an original article: Pro-Med posting 20081204.3821
"Rabies, canine, human - Indonesia (03):(Bali)"

... submitted in the interests of better animal health & Rabies control by Walter M Woolf, V.M.D. .. Principal Owner, and Managing Director ... Air Animal Pet Movers, Tampa, Florida