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28/05/2014
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The International Organisation for Animal Health ( OIE ) warns that lack of resources causes up to 55,000 deaths per year from people
The lack of resources for the vaccination of dogs is causing the deaths , annually, thousands of children in countries around the world.
The director of the International Organisation for Animal Health ( OIE ) , Bernard Vallat told the BBC that the invisible killer - the virus of rabies , or hydrophobia - could be eliminated by a tenth of the cost of treating a patient.
One of the oldest diseases of which are known in the world , rabies is usually transmitted by contact with the saliva of infected dogs or bats . According to the latest estimates , rabies kills about 55,000 people annually . About 40 % of victims are under 15 years of age.
The virus affects the central nervous system and causes swelling in the brain. If not treated early , the disease becomes incurable.
prevention
In 1885 , scientists Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux developed a vaccine that has since saved millions of people 's anger. It was also used to eradicate the disease in various parts of the world , eliminating the virus from dogs and other species that can transmit infection , including foxes .
But the costs of preventive vaccination remain relatively high - and that means that the disease is still present , for example , in poor regions of Asia . The victims are often children who are close to the animals without knowing the risks .
And how very small children are not able to tell their parents what happened to them , health professionals fear that the total number of victims of the virus is much higher than official estimates .
In a speech during the annual conference of the OIE in Paris , Vallat stated that international investments for the eradication of the disease are scarce .
" Even when we show that the cost of vaccinating dogs is 10 % of the cost of treating people bitten by dogs in the world , we are not able to convince the donors ," he told the BBC .
Vallat compared the lack of investment in combating rabies headlines that generated by the discovery recently of the Mers ( abbreviation for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ) virus.
"Anger is a small number of countries , it is not visible . We have about 70 thousand children die annually in terrible pain , and the media does not talk about it , speaks of Mers , which killed 200 people and elderly " .
bad vaccines
Another reason for concern is the fact that some of the vaccines currently used to prevent rabies in dogs and other animals are inferior to the desired . This can actually make the situation worse .
" There are very cheap vaccines for rabies , are attenuated vaccines ( where the virus is found alive but unable to produce disease ) ," said Vallat . " Left unchecked , you could end up infecting the animals with the virus ."
" Our standard is to use inactive vaccines ( with which ) the animal makes antibodies based on a virus that is not alive ."
Source : Last Second
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