Rabies kills more people annually in India than in any other country (http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rabies-stalks-india-stray-dogs-who-animal-welfare-board-of-india/1/353187.html). As of 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 20,000 cases of human rabies cases occur in India per year. Isn't this crazy? Rabies is 100% preventable!!!
Eradicating rabies is one mission of the International Training Centre in Ooty, India. (Website: http://www.wvsitc.org/). This task involves field excursions to remote villages where stray dogs and cats are caught, restrained, injected with rabies vaccine, and finally, marked with purple paint before being released. Local people are also educated on the significance of preventive rabies vaccination and sterilization of domestic animals in the prevention of rabies transmission to people. The whole endeavor takes a huge amount of manpower, time, resources, and patience.
Following are some pictures from a Mission Rabies field outing:
Eradicating rabies is one mission of the International Training Centre in Ooty, India. (Website: http://www.wvsitc.org/). This task involves field excursions to remote villages where stray dogs and cats are caught, restrained, injected with rabies vaccine, and finally, marked with purple paint before being released. Local people are also educated on the significance of preventive rabies vaccination and sterilization of domestic animals in the prevention of rabies transmission to people. The whole endeavor takes a huge amount of manpower, time, resources, and patience.
Following are some pictures from a Mission Rabies field outing:
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| We rode in and occasionally clung on to the back of this truck to travel from area to area--that was great fun!!! These guys in yellow have some speedy legs in order to catch stray dogs. |
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| Taken whilst moving! |
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| Administering rabies vaccine after successfully netting a stray dog |
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| Wee puppies are MUCH easier to restrain and vaccinate. |
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| Cats, EVERYWHERE, can be expected to "resist" restraint and vaccination more so than dogs, right? ;-) Otherwise, they wouldn't be cats! |
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| Adorable children + adorable puppy! |
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| Some of the dogs we vaccinated were owned by local villagers. |
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| A watchful duo (thought bubbles from the dog: especially post-vaccination)... |
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| I came across this in a small shrine in-between villages...it gets my vote for the next global peace policy! |
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