A rabies lesson improves rabies knowledge amongst primary school children in Zomba, Malawi.

• Main Authors: Jordana L Burdon Bailey (Author), Luke Gamble (Author), Andrew D Gibson (Author), Barend M deC Bronsvoort (Author), Ian G Handel (Author), Richard J Mellanby (Author), Stella Mazeri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rabies is an important neglected disease, which kills around 59,000 people a year. Over a third of these deaths are in children less than 15 years of age. Almost all human rabies deaths in Africa and Asia are due to bites from infected dogs. Despite the high efficacy of current rabies vaccines, awar...