(HBO) - Rabies is a dangerous infectious disease in animals subject to epidemic declaration and also in the list of animal-human transmission diseases. In 2017, no rabies-related deaths were reported. However, in the first five months of this year, there were four deaths in the districts of Ky Son, Luong Son, Cao Phong and Da Bac.
After a dog bite, Bui Thi Hien from Hien Luong
commune (Da Bac) took a vaccination against rabies at the provincial preventive
medicine centre.
The number of people who received
rabies preventive treatment since the beginning of the year has so far reached
94, an increase of more than 15 percent over the same period in 2017. All the
four dead patients, three of them under 15 years old, did not receive preventive
treatment after being bitten.
The main source of rabies
transmission is dogs not vaccinated against rabies. Unvaccinated dogs affect
the immunity of the whole dog community, which will facilitate the spread of the
virus and hence transmit to human and other domestic animals. Human often catch
rabies from pet dogs, and those who are bitten by rabies-infected dogs will die
if they don’t seek preventive treatment from health care facilities. Therefore,
giving dogs and cats shots against rabies is the most important solution.
Luong Thanh Hai, Director of the
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Department, said that in 2017 and the
first five months of 2018, the rate of rabies vaccination for dogs and cats in
the province remained low. In 2017, it was 78.2 percent while the first five
months was only 66.9 percent. Localities with low vaccination rates in 2017 included
Mai Chau with 24.3 percent, Da Bac 32.8 percent, Luong Son 54.8 percent, and
Yen Thuy 72 percent.
Analysis by the provincial Steering
Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control concluded that the main reason
behind the situation is the poor performance in the management of dogs in many
localities in the province, especially in listing pet dogs, thus leaving them wander
without control and bite people, especially in rural and remote areas./.
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