- Hello Jeff -- I think one reason the rabies epidemic
in China is so high is because the rabies vaccines could easily be included
in some of the bogus counterfeit medications that are being made in China. There
are a large number of counterfeit, worthless/dangerous medications and
vaccines circulating there.
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- Patty
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- RABIES, HUMAN, CANINE - CHINA
- 6-12-7
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- (Reuters) -- Rabies killed 201 people in China last month
[May 2007], staying at the top of the list of the most deadly infectious
diseases in the country, state media said on Tuesday [12 Jun 2007]. Rabies
has topped the list for the last 13 months, except in March when tuberculosis
came first, the China Daily said, blaming dogs for spreading the disease.
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- Beijing has introduced a "one family, one dog"
policy and last year launched a campaign against unregistered dogs. The
State Food and Drug Administration also said last year it would severely
punish companies that produce fake and poor quality rabies vaccines, after
several people reportedly died from substandard vaccines.
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- Last year, Shanghai implanted digital chips in the ears
of 65 000 dogs to improve "canine management" and prevent the
spread of rabies. Pet dogs were shunned in the days of Mao Zedong as a
symbol of bourgeois decadence but have become increasingly popular in the
past decade with improved living standards.
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- Communicated by ProMED-mail Rapporteur Joseph Dudley
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- It would be of interest to know in which provinces and
cities these human rabies fatalities occurred, and what proportion of human
exposures are due to pet (owned) animals versus which to unowned street
or stray dogs. It is not clear from this article if vaccines used for human
post-exposure treatment or for dog vaccinations are of suspect quality.
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- In either case, the safe, potent rabies vaccines are
a key element in rabies control for both humans and for animals. - Mod.TY
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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