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Brief Operational Summary 2019

WVS & Mission Rabies work synergistically to provide fast and effective veterinary response to animals in need worldwide. They support charities, provide veterinary care, training, and outreach projects. Mission Rabies focuses on canine vaccination and education to eliminate rabies deaths by 2030.

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Brief Operational Summary 2019

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  1. Brief Operational Summary 2019

  2. About WVS & Mission Rabies • Based in Cranborne, Dorset, UK and registered in the UK & US • Working synergistically to facilitate disease elimination programmes and champion animal welfare • Practically focused and privately funded (grants & donations)

  3. WVS provides: • Veterinary parcels of medication and equipment • Vet teams • Disaster Emergency Response • Vet training (ITCs) • Outreach projects To registered not-for-profit organisations

  4. What WVS Do • Aims to provide a fast and effective veterinary response to animals in need all over the world, assisting other animal welfare charities and sanctuaries to promote the highest level of animal welfare • We act as a central veterinary resource offering free care to animals around the world by supplying teams of vets, nurses, medicine and equipment in places no one else can.

  5. Our Biggest Achievements… 850 • We currently support over charities worldwide • In 2018 alone, we: Sent out 1,056 aid parcels Treated 65,687 animals Trained 702 vets Sent out 133 vet teams

  6. Our International Training Centres • Native and international vet training • Hands-on experience of soft tissue surgery and spay/neutering • Real-life, challenging cases • Brand new environment, culture and country • Gain practical and professional skills • Gain confidence in veterinary techniques

  7. ITC India (Ooty)

  8. ITC Goa

  9. ITC Thailand

  10. Some recent rescues! ChomDeuan was left paralysed after being hit by a car, but now walks again thanks to WVS Thailand! Apple went from this… to this! Half her face had been eaten away by maggots when she arrived at WVS. The team at the BSPCA in Malawi removed a large tumour from this dog! This Thai dog had a tumour the size of a man’s fist.

  11. What Mission Rabies do • We run mass canine vaccination, community education and surveillance programmes in global rabies hotspots in line with the global goal to eliminate dog bite mediated human rabies deaths by 2030! • Together with our partners like the US CDC, we develop novel approaches to rabies elimination which are published in peer-reviewed journals

  12. Where we work Goa, India Uganda Ghana Thailand Blantyre, Malawi Sri Lanka Tanzania

  13. What is rabies? • Rabies is a deadly virus – it is almost 100% fatal • It is a zoonotic disease and can affect any mammal – reservoir species are often dogs, raccoons, skunks, monkeys, bats • The virus is present in the saliva of affected animals • When an animal bites another, virus enters the wound and attaches to nerve ending • Infection can also occur if saliva enters the body through broken skin or contact with mucous membranes • Travels up nerve to central nervous system

  14. Effects on the patient • When the virus reaches the brain, the symptoms begin. By then it is too late to save the patient. • Two types: furious vs dumb (paralytic) rabies • Symptoms include: • Inability to swallow (not eating/drinking) • Confusion • Aggression • Change in voice/bark • Drooling saliva • Incoordination • Paralysis • Coma • Death (within 1-2 weeks)

  15. Key Stats • Majority of people who die are low-income socioeconomic status • 30-60% of victims are children under 16years1 • Access to post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is variable in many parts of the world - often prohibitively expensive (31 days wage average Asian, 51 days average African)2 • Estimated global cost €8.6billion (3.7 million DALYs)3 • In many endemic countries rabies is not notifiable, no organised in-country surveillance and very little investment in control programmes 1Bulletin of the WHO; Vol 87, No 12, Dec 2009, 885-964 2WHO ExpertConsultationon Rabies 2013 3Hampson K, Coudeville L, Lembo T, Sambo M, Kieffer A, Attlan M, et al. Estimatingthe Global Burden of EndemicCanine Rabies. PLoSNeglTropDis. 2015;9: e0003709. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003709

  16. Our impact in India 66 positive (6 months) - tested at NIMHANS 17 symptomatic human rabies cases 0 Goa laboratory diagnostics 0 human diagnostics 0 surveillance 0 government supported dog vaccinations

  17. Our impact in India 39 positive (6months) Lab capacity in DIU 2 human deaths PM facilities 1.5 Lakh children, 7,000 teachers taught about rabies 96,000 government supported vaccinations Human rabies diagnosis

  18. Mission Rabies achievements Dogs vaccinated: 1,000,000 Children educated: 2,450,000

  19. Thank you! • For more info: • Call us on +44 (0) 1725 557225 • Email me at fred@missionrabies.com

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