Cost-effectiveness of dog rabies vaccination programs in East Africa.

• Main Authors: Rebekah H Borse (Author), Charisma Y Atkins (Author), Manoj Gambhir (Author), Eduardo A Undurraga (Author), Jesse D Blanton (Author), Emily B Kahn (Author), Jessie L Dyer (Author), Charles E Rupprecht (Author), Martin I Meltzer (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dog rabies annually causes 24,000-70,000 deaths globally. We built a spreadsheet tool, RabiesEcon, to aid public health officials to estimate the cost-effectiveness of dog rabies vaccination programs in East Africa.RabiesEcon uses a mathematical model of dog-dog and dog-human rabies transmission to...