Rabies vaccines are killed vaccines, so there is no chance of live virus being transmitted.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the public against three different falsified
rabies vaccines and one falsified anti-rabies serum circulating in the country.
As for availability of anti
rabies vaccines in the hospitals of the province concerned, a senior doctor said this comes low in the priorities of the managers associated with government as well as private sector medical facilities.
[USPRwire, Mon Apr 22 2019] The BHK
rabies vaccines market is expected to grow in the developing countries as is an important health problem which needs to be controlled.
Lagayan said the cut in the agency's budget for the year resulted in the minimal supply of
rabies vaccines.
The institute has assured the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination that it will utilise all available resources to meet the country's need for
rabies vaccines and anti-sera production.
Experts said they have characterised rabies virus from the saliva of apparently healthy domestic dogs in the country, and as such the need for a widespread surveillance to identify prospective candidates for the development of
rabies vaccines for effective control of the disease in Nigeria.
National Guidelines for Rabies Prophylaxis and Intra-dermal Administration of Cell Culture
Rabies Vaccines. New Delhi: National Centre for Disease Control; 2007.
In-spite of significant increase in dog bite cases in KP, the anti
rabies vaccines is out of stock in most of the public sector hospitals in Khyber Pakthunkhwa where poor patients are left with no option but to purchase it from market on very high prices to save their lives, totally negating PTI claims of providing inexpensive healthcare to poor segment of the society.
Baits laden with oral
rabies vaccines are important for the management of wildlife rabies in the United States (1).
Current
rabies vaccines use weakened pathogens to develop resistance.
Over the past few decades, it's become increasingly clear that modern
rabies vaccines reliably convey immunity from rabies for longer periods than their labels guarantee.