Rabies in Africa

Rabies Today

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 episode, Katie Hampson reports from northern Tanzania where there has been some progress in bringing rabies under control, but also meets a family whose son has recently been infected.

Across Africa, the people most vulnerable to rabies usually live in remote and rural areas, where dog vaccination rates are low, awareness of the disease is limited, and human rabies vaccines for PEP are often unavailable.

Also in this episode we go to Nigeria to find out how dog meat is linked to rabies, South Africa for the latest on rabies in seals, and we hear about plans for a continent-wide rabies control strategy.

Rabies Today is hosted by Professor Katie Hampson of the University of Glasgow.

Her guests in this episode are:

Dr Huyam Salih, Director, AU-Inter-African Bureau of Animal Resources

Dr Christian Tetteh Duamor, Rabies Elimination Project, Tanzania

Dr Grace Kia, Lecturer and founder of War Against Rabies foundation, Nigeria

Dr Lesley van Helden, State Veterinary Service, Western Cape, South Africa.

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