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Rabies mortality and morbidity associated with animal bites in Africa: a case for integrated rabies disease surveillance, prevention and control: a scoping review.

Peter Suwirakwenda NyasuluJacqueline WeyerRea TschoppAdane MihretAbraham AseffaSamuel Victor NuvorJacques Lukenze TamuziLuke NyakarahukaGideon Kofi HelegbeNyanda Elias NtinginyaMelaku Tefera GebreyesusSeydou DoumbiaReinhard BusseChristian Drosten
Published in: BMJ open (2021)
This study found challenges for dog rabies control and elimination in Africa and the need for a policy to drive the goal of zero dog-transmitted rabies to humans by 2030.This is an open-access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build on this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated and the use is non-commercial (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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