JoVE Rabies Methods Collection Webinar
JoVE Rabies Methods Collection Webinar
Dates:
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 09:00 to 11:30 EDT
Location:
Online Zoom Meeting
Description:
JoVE Rabies Methods Collection Webinar
Dates:
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 09:00 to 11:30 EDT
Location:
Online Zoom Meeting
Description:
During the recent most meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF Committee) of the European Commission members were informed by the Polish representatives about the detection of two rabies cases in an area that had been rabies free for more than 16 years. The three rabies cases were found during the past 4 weeks in the voivodeship of Mazowieckie close to the capital of Warsaw and approximately 30 to 40 km west of the 100 km deep common vaccination belt established in member states sharing common borders with non-EU countries to the East to avoid reinfection.
The United Against Rabies Forum calls for elimination of human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030.
While tackling the problem at the animal source is considered the ultimate solution, the problems lie in the
details. Varying numbers of stray dogs that play a crucial role in transmission of rabies virus pose a real
challenge to the concept of parenteral mass vaccination of dogs. But there might be a solution. Dr. Ryan
Wallace, a CDC veterinary epidemiologist and rabies expert discussed the use of oral rabies vaccination
in stray dog populations in a podcast.
Because of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 crisis the workshop will be held as an online event. The meeting will bring together heads of the National Reference Laboratories for rabies and rabies experts from EU member states and other European countries. The focus will be primarily on laboratory rabies diagnosis but will also address latest developments in regulatory affairs, control strategies and research activities.
France reports a human rabies death due to bat associated rabies. The man died already in August 2019 of an unknown encephalitis. New diagnostic analysis using molecular tools revealed that the encephalitis was caused by European Bat Lyssavirus type 1 (EBLV-1). This is the 4th report of a human EBLV-1 case in Europe. The last human EBLV-1 was reported from Ukraine in 1985.