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=Rabies Control=
=Rabies Control=
*Antigenicity allows a single antigenic type to vaccinate
For countries where rabies is considered exotic:
*6 month quarantine of carnivores and ruminants (Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand)
*In the UK, this has been replaced by the '''Pet Travel Scheme''' ([http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/index.htm PETS])
For virus-endemic countries:
#Control in pets:
#*Annual Vaccination:
#**Antigenicity allows a single antigenic type to vaccinate
#**'''Inactivated virus''' or '''canarypox''' recombinant viruses
#*Control of stray population
#*Muzzling in public
#Control of wildlife reservoir hosts:
#*Feeding vaccinated bait
#*Secondary consequence of increasing reservoir host population (eg European foxes)
#Control in humans
##Prevention by vaccination with a single booster if bitten
##*The current vaccine is grown in human diploid cells (HDCV) and is BPL-inactivated, and therefore costly
##*Developing countries utilize older vaccines passaged from a 1939 case ("Flury" vaccines)
##If Bitten and unvaccinated:
##*Clean and disinfect wound
##*Human '''anti-rabies immunoglobulin''' administered around bite
##*Intramuscular vaccination program: 2 dose-1 dose-1 dose at 0, 7, and 14 days post-bite
For more on Rabies control in Europe, see [http://www.who-rabies-bulletin.org/About_Rabies/Control.aspx here]