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Vets Beyond Borders – World Rabies Day is on September 28
Photo Source: Global Alliance for Rabies Control
Be aware of the spread of rabies, vaccinate to eliminate Dog-mediated virus 99% fatal, 100% preventable
World Rabies Day is on September 28 and Australian-based international animal charity Vets Beyond Borders is highlighting the importance of vaccinating dogs to help prevent the spread of the deadly rabies virus.
Rabies kills nearly 60,000 people around the world every year, according to the World Health Organisation. The virus is spread through the saliva of infected animals by biting another animal or a person, and it is always fatal once clinical symptoms appear. An estimated 5.5 billion plus people live at daily risk of rabies¹. Thankfully, Australia is free from this disease.
“Rabies is nearly always fatal but it’s 100 per cent preventable by vaccination,” said Maryann Dalton, CEO of Vets Beyond Borders, which deploys volunteer veterinarians and veterinary nurses across the globe to deliver animal health and community awareness programs where they are desperately needed. “Australia does not have rabies. But we need to bring this deadly dog-mediated disease to the Australian public’s attention.”
Rabies warning in Australia
The Australian Government Department of Agriculture is warning the virus could reach Australia’s shores at any time as it spreads across our northern neighbours. There is the risk of yachts or fishing vessels carrying rabies-infected dogs from Indonesia landing on Australia’s northern coastline and mixing with dingoes and community cats and dogs. If these dogs become infected with rabies, they would be a huge threat to the health and safety of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people living in northern Australia communities.
This year’s World Rabies Day awareness theme is Rabies: Vaccinate to Eliminate and highlights the importance of keeping dogs vaccinated, helping people in need to seek and obtain life-saving treatment (post-exposure prophylaxis), and committing to the 2030 goal of eliminating rabies deaths.
“Dog bites cause almost all human cases of rabies,” said Ms Dalton. “We can prevent rabies deaths through increased awareness, vaccinating dogs to prevent disease at its source, and timely life-saving post-bite treatment for people.”
VBB anti-rabies program eliminating
dog-mediated deaths
Vets Beyond Borders has been running animal birth control and anti-rabies programs in India (which carries a third of the world’s rabies burden) for nearly 15 years, providing canine rabies vaccination, humane dog population control, community education and treatment of sick and injured animals.
“VBB’s Sikkim Anti-Rabies and Animal Health (SARAH) program is the first state-wide rabies program and has demonstrated successful near elimination of this dog-mediated disease²,” said Ms Dalton.
In the last financial year, VBB desexed over 7,000 animals, administered nearly 36,000 doses of anti-rabies vaccine and 290 doses of distemper vaccine, in addition to the medical, surgical and hospital care VBB provides to hundreds of sick and injured domestic animals and wildlife.
During the current financial year, in addition to treating sick and injured animals, VBB will administer 30,000 to 40,000 rabies vaccinations plus approximately 200 distemper vaccinations and sterilisation of up to 9,000 dogs, Ms Dalton added.
“Vets Beyond Borders provides the volunteers and facilitates clinical skill development of local vets,” she said. “We need funds to purchase medical equipment and vaccinations to treat street dogs for distemper, parvo and rabies.”
For more information about Vets Beyond Borders’ animal health and community awareness programs, please visit www.vetsbeyondborders.org
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Photo Source: Global Alliance for Rabies Control
How can you help prevent the spread of rabies?
The Australian Government Department of Agriculture has released an educational video, ‘Keep a Top Watch’ on rabies in the community, as well as information on the signs of rabies.
The public can help prevent the introduction and spread of rabies by always declaring animals brought into Australia and immediately reporting any suspected case of rabies by phoning the Emergency Animal Disease Watch Hotline on 1800 675 888
¹Global Alliance for Rabies Control
² Eliminating Dog-Mediated Rabies in Sikkim, India: A 10-Year Pathway to Success for the SARAH Program. Frontiers in Veterinary Science Journal (March 2017).
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About Vets Beyond Borders
Vets Beyond Borders is an international animal charity based in Australia that is operating since 2003 to help improve the lives of animals and humans in developing communities around the world. Through its VetMatch and VetTrain programs, VBB deploys volunteer veterinarians and veterinary nurses across the globe to deliver quality animal health and education/community awareness programs where they are desperately needed.
Our volunteers provide desperately needed veterinary treatment and are actively involved in anti-rabies immunisation (ABC-AR) projects and efforts to humanely control the population of homeless dogs and cats by surgical sterilisation (animal birth control surgery) across the globe. In Australia, VBB’s AVERT (Australian Veterinary Emergency Response Team) program has volunteers standing ready to deliver prompt treatment to animals affected by natural disaster or outbreak of exotic disease.
For more information about VBB programs and how you can help, please visit www.vetsbeyondborders.org/donate-to-charity/
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VeterinaryCareers.com.au Job Round up 10.09.2019 – A list of 47 Currently Advertised jobs
VeterinaryCareers.com.au
Job Round up 10 September 2019
A list of 47 Currently Advertised jobs
Australia
New South Wales
- Animal Welfare Officer, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Closing Date: 15/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/36-3/ - Veterinary Surgeon, Camden Valley Animal Hospital, Narellan, NSW, Australia, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-surgeon-7/ - Veterinarian, Lake Road Veterinary Clinic, Wagga Wagga NSW, Australia, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinarian-45/ - Clinical Study Manager, Pettit Pharma & Device Search, Sydney, NSW, Australia, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/clinical-study-manager/ - Professional Officer – Laboratory Section, New South Wales Government – Department of Planning, Industry & Environment – Primary Industries, Menangle, NSW, Australia, Closing Date: 15/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/professional-officer-laboratory-section/Queensland
- Laboratory and Technical Support Officer, Veterinary Anatomy, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, Closing Date: 06/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/laboratory-and-technical-support-officer-veterinary-anatomy/Victoria
- Full time or Part-Time, Small Animal or Mixed Veterinarian, Geelong Veterinary Hospital, Marshall, Victoria, Australia, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/full-time-or-part-time-small-animal-or-mixed-veterinarian/ - Animal Ethics Committee Members, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Closing Date: 04/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/animal-ethics-committee-members/ ]
Australian Capital Territory
- Veterinary Officers, Department of Agriculture, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Closing Date: 12/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-officer-7/Western Australia
- Chief Executive Officer – The Animal Hospital, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia, Closing date: 16/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/chief-executive-officer-the-animal-hospital/
South Australia
- Veterinary Clinician (Production Animal), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, Closing Date: 05/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-clinician-production-animal/ - Equine/Mixed Practice Veterinarian, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, Closing Date: 27/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/equine-mixed-practice-veterinarian/ - Manager Animal Facility, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Closing Date: 22/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/35-2/Virtual
- Veterinary Clinical Pathologist (Virtual), IDEXX, Virtual Position, Australia, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-clinical-pathologist-virtual/International
Belgium
- Teaching Assistant, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Closing Date: 10/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/teaching-assistant/Canada
- Assistant or Associate Professor in Veterinary Virology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/assistant-or-associate-professor-in-veterinary-virology/ - Veterinary Anesthesiologist, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-anesthesiologist/ - Assistant Professor, Bovine Health Management, WA Ranches, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Closing Date: 17/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/assistant-professor-bovine-health-management-wa-ranches/
Cambodia
- Assistant Veterinarian, Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB), Angkor, Cambodia, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/36-2/China
- (Senior)Director, Veterinary Medicine Research and Development, Zoetis, Suzhou Shi, China, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/seniordirector-veterinary-medicine-research-and-development/ - Diagnostic Technical Manager- APAC, Zoetis Inc, Shanghai, China, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/34-2/
East Timor
- Veterinary Laboratory Scientist Mentor, Menzies, Dili, Timor-Leste, Closing Date: 15/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-laboratory-scientist-mentor/Germany
- Veterinarian, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany, Closing Date: 15/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinarian-43/Hong Kong
- Dean of Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/33-5/New Zealand
- Companion Animal Veterinarian, CoroVets, Whangamata, New Zealand, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/companion-animal-veterinarian-2/ - Veterinarian, Pakuranga Vet Clinic & Cattery, Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinarian-44/Sweden
- Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Animal Ecology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Closing Date: 16/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/senior-lecturer-associate-professor-in-animal-ecology/Switzerland
- Veterinary Specialist, Nestle, La Tour, Switzerland, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-specialist-2/United Kingdom
- Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 20/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/senior-lecturer-lecturer-in-2/ - Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Small Animal Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 27/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/senior-lecturer-lecturer-in-small-animal-orthopaedic-surgery/ - Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Practice, Royal Veterinary College, Nr. Potters Bar, Herts, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 01/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/senior-lecturer-in-higher-education-practice/ - Veterinary Adviser Field Delivery, Scotland, Animal & Plant Health Agency, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom, Closing Date 22/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-adviser-field-delivery-scotland/ - Veterinary Surgeon, PDSA, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 17/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-surgeon-10/ - Postdoctoral Researcher in Veterinary Public Health – Fixed Term (3 years), Royal Veterinary College, Nr. Potters Bar, Herts, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 29/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/postdoctoral-researcher-in-veterinary-public-health-fixed-term-3-years/ - Small Animal Vet, Barton Veterinary Hospital & Surgery, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 03/10/2019 https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/small-animal-vet-4/
- Pig Vet, Garth Pig Practice, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 30/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/pig-vet/ - Veterinary Surgeon, Forest House Veterinary Group, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 03/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-surgeon-9/ - Veterinary Surgeon, Pets n’ Vets, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 03/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/veterinary-surgeon-8/ - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 27/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-veterinary-pathology-2/ - Small Animal Vet, Farthings Veterinary Group, Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 28/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/small-animal-vet-3/ - Small Animal Vet, Lanes Vets, Garstang, Preston, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 02/10/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/small-animal-vet-2/ - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Sciences, Harper Adams University, Shropshire, United Kingdom, Closing Date: 20/09/2019
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-veterinary-sciences/United States
- Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, University of Arizona, Outside of Tucsan, Arizona, United States, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/assistant-associate-full-professor/ - Patrick T. Redig Endowed Chair in Raptor and Ecosystem Health, Raptor Centre – University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/patrick-t-redig-endowed-chair-in-raptor-and-ecosystem-health/ - Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Molecular Virology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/tenure-track-faculty-position-in-molecular-virology/ - Clinical Assistant Professor of Avian-Exotic Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/clinical-assistant-professor-of-avian-exotic-medicine/ - Animal Programs – Veterinary Hospital Internship – Spring 2020, Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, No closing date provided
https://veterinarycareers.com.au/dev/Jobs/33-6/