♦ 28 September 2016 ♦

On 28 September 2016, on the occasion of World Rabies Day, WHO, OIE, and FAO published a joint statement to call on countries to accelerate efforts to combat rabies in three steps: Education, by raising awareness of rabies among at-risk populations, Vaccination, by implementing large-scale dog vaccination and ensuring prompt delivery of post-exposure treatment to humans in areas at risk of rabies and Elimination, by targeting a world free from dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030. Full statement is available on http://www.oie.int.