Rabies: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

Rabies causes about 59,000 annual deaths with more than 15 million human exposures worldwide, mostly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. An international community now calls for the worldwide canine rabies-free by 2030 (Zero by 30), which indicates no indigenously acquired dog-mediated rabies cases among humans to be achieved by the year 2030. To meet its goal, we should scale up the use of existing vaccines, medicines, and other scientifically proven interventional tools effectively, and then effective anti-rabies policies, guidance and governance need to be implemented throughout the country with reliable surveillance data to enable effective decision-making. Multisectoral collaborations are also essential under the framework of One Health to tackle rabies. Many need to be done towards elimination, but we should monitor, evaluate, and show the progress of elimination activities periodically and enhance them accordingly. Therefore, we would like to collect the papers on the current knowledge and advancement of rabies control and prevention at local, municipal, and/or national levels, and provide effective recommendations and future perspectives on the forthcoming elimination in this Special Issue.

Dr. Koji Kanda
Prof. Ananda Jayasinghe
Guest Editors

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