Finding low cost treatment of dog rabies in India.
Dear all, Today I am writing this blog in the middle of my research which is under process. WHO and OIE are trying to control dog mediated rabies from world by 2030. Which I think will never be possible without controlling rabies at the dog's level, as 99% of the rabies in India is spreading through dogs. So, we are in great need of mass vaccination of dogs. In many states of India including Himachal Pradesh we are facing shortage of Anti- rabies vaccination, and many poor farmers of our hilly regions are not able to afford even PrEP for their dogs. Presently I am working on intradermal route of vaccine administration in dogs instead of using subcutaneous and intramuscular routes . For both PrEP and PEP we are trying to use IDRV and comparing it with IMRV. As a parallel study to human rabies , they are using IDRV since ages and are getting protective antibody titres against rabies after 0,3,7 of PEP protocol. But presently in India we are using 0,3,7,14,28 PEP regime ...