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  2. World Rabies Day - Wikipedia

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    A World Rabies Day event at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. Events held to mark World Rabies Day range from symposia on current rabies control methods and public events for raising awareness about good prevention practice, to sponsored walks, runs or bike rides, to free or externally subsidized vaccination clinics for dogs.

  3. Rabies in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Rabies Scare" has Beavis get bitten by a rabid dog. He bites antacid tablets to simulate foaming at the mouth. In Blue Mountain State Season 1, linebacker Thad Castle admits to using rabies as a performance enhancer because it gives him the same competitive edge as steroids but is undetectable to the NCAA's ...

  4. Rabies - Wikipedia

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    Rabies causes about 59,000 deaths worldwide per year, [6] about 40% of which are in children under the age of 15. [16] More than 95% of human deaths from rabies occur in Africa and Asia. [1] Rabies is present in more than 150 countries and on all continents but Antarctica. [1] More than 3 billion people live in regions of the world where rabies ...

  5. Global Alliance for Rabies Control - Wikipedia

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    The Global Alliance for Rabies Control works to unite rabies stakeholders [7] to increase awareness and support for rabies elimination, build in-country capabilities to tackle the disease at the national level, educate at-risk communities to protect themselves and build the evidence base to demonstrate the benefits of eliminating rabies.

  6. Category:Awareness weeks in the United States - Wikipedia

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  7. Prevalence of rabies - Wikipedia

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    Currently, in the U.S., only one to three cases of rabies in humans are reported annually. After in 2019 and 2020 there were no reported cases of human rabies, in 2021 there were a record of five rabies human deaths, the highest number in a decade, possibly because of a lack of awareness about the risks of rabies. [54]

  8. Rabies in animals - Wikipedia

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    Rabies has a long history of association with dogs. The first written record of rabies is in the Codex of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC), which dictates that the owner of a dog showing symptoms of rabies should take preventive measure against bites. If a person was bitten by a rabid dog and later died, the owner was fined heavily.

  9. Mission Rabies - Wikipedia

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    Mission Rabies is a programme of Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS), a United Kingdom-based charity that assists animals. Mission Rabies has a One Health approach driven by research to eliminate dog bite transmitted rabies (a disease that is estimated to kill 59,000 people annually [ 1 ] ).