Rabies Today
A podcast that looks at current issues surrounding a very old disease. Created and produced by United Against Rabies. Hosted by Professor Katie Hampson of the University of Glasgow with guests from around the world. Find out more at www.unitedagainstrabies.org
Episodes
13 episodes
Rabies in Conflict Zones
The battle against rabies is complex and difficult. But imagine having to fight rabies in a country at war. In this episode, we meet three people working in enormously challenging circumstances in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ukr...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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16:48
Rabies Control: Don't Wait, Do Something
South African rabies expert Kevin Le Roux told colleages at the United Against Rabies Forum in Cape Town that rabies data will never be perfect, so what is vital is to act to control the disease and save lives. Meanwhile Dr Joseph Nkho...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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19:48
World Rabies Day: Working with Communities
World Rabies Day is September 28th, an important day for community mobilization around dog vaccination and raising public awareness. But what's really successful when working with communities? And what is happening at national and intern...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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17:35
Rabies in Africa
Rabies still kills at least 25,000 people each year in Africa, many of them children. It also kills huge numbers of livestock animals at great cost to farming and pastoral communities.In this episode, Katie Hampson r...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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22:53
Gavi's Vaccine Rollout
Human rabies vaccines for PEP save lives by stopping the deadly virus reaching the central nervous system. But these lifesaving vaccines are often unavailable or unaffordable, especially in marginalized communities in Asia and Africa where rabi...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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Rabies in South East Asia
Dog-mediated rabies is on the rise in Southeast Asia, including in areas that were previously rabies free. Could a new ASEAN strategy finally turn the tide in the region to address low dog vaccination rates, insufficient provision of human rabi...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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21:21
Rabies Today trailer
Professor Katie Hampson will be back soon with a new series of Rabies Today. Stay tuned!
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Zero by 30: Dead or Alive?
"Zero by 30" is the Global Strategic Plan to achieve zero human deaths from dog- mediated rabies by 2030. It was published in 2018, well before the pandemic. With just 7 years to go, can “Zero by 30” still be achieved? What progress has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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Rabies, Dogs and Wildlife
In the Americas, canine rabies variants have infected several wildlife species which now maintain independent cycles of transmission. In Namibia, kudu have emerged as unlikely species to be especially vulnerable to rabies transmission within th...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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21:10
Fight Rabies: Go Local
Professor Katie Hampson and guests discuss the diverse strategies they employ at local level to tackle rabies. From education to religion and local customs to politics, context is critical. With Dr Kenneth Chawinga, Senior ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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18:03
Dogs Dogs Dogs
Dogs and people have lived together for thousands of years. As the main source of rabies infections in humans (over 90%), controlling rabies in dogs is essential to ending human rabies deaths. In this episode we’re discussing how ...
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Episode 3
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