More than 55,000 people, mostly in Africa and Asia, die from rabies every year - a rate of one person every ten minutes.³
Vet StudentsIn conjunction with World Rabies Day, Merial is proud to partner with Student AVMA chapters across the United States and the Caribbean on the One Health Challenge event. This national competition’s goal is to raise funds that are donated for rabies prevention and educational programs. Merial is donating start-up funds and vaccines to participating veterinary schools that host benefit events, educational programs and vaccination clinics. The school that raises the most money will receive an on-site rabies symposium sponsored by Merial.Tuskegee University wins 2007 challenge!In 2007, fifty-six percent of Tuskegee University veterinary students participated in a rabies forum, a vaccination clinic, doggie dash and 5K fun run to raise $1,000 for rabies prevention and control programs in support of World Rabies Day. As the winner of the contest, Tuskegee Unversity was awarded a Rabies Symposium on their campus. The symposium – to be held on October 18 at the Kellogg Conference Center, Tuskegee, Ala. – will bring together veterinary students, faculty and practicing veterinarians to discuss the importance of rabies prevention and control at the global, national, state and local levels, as well as human and animal rabies epidemiology, rabies diagnosis and surveillance issues. |
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