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Rabies in Ghana: The silent bites
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Rabies cases surge in Western, Greater Accra Regions – 793 cases, 77 deaths in 3 years
By Ernest Bako WUBONTO
September 27, 2024
Ghana Launches National Rabies Prevention Campaign In Accra
byGhana Health Service
on July 24, 2023
IN: GHS NEWS
Accra’s open zoo: Animals on the loose -Dog bites on the rise
Mary Anane-Amponsah Sep - 02 - 2023 , 10:05
Rabies Death Alert issued in Ashanti Region with 4 possibly 5 rabies related deaths.
Vaccinate your dogs to prevent rabies and future deaths.
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Six persons have so far died from rabies in the Upper West Region this year.
- Published: 20.01.2015 Daily Graphic Newspaper
- Daniel Russell
The Deputy Director of Public Health in the region, Dr Winfred Ofosu, who disclosed this, bemoaned the high prevalence of rabies in the region due to the failure of owners to vaccinate their dogs.
Fifteen (15) people died of rabies in the Ashanti Region, last year, Dr. Albert Kwansah-Filson, the Regional Director of Veterinary Services Department (VSD), has announced.
Oct 29, 2016
He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the figure could be higher as “many cases in the communities are not reported”.
He put the number of cases of the preventable viral disease transmitted through the bite of rabid animals, seen during the period at 1,000.
Salomey Appiah
08 October 2015
Graphic Newspaper
Six children died of rabies at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra from January to September this year.
The children, who were aged two to nine, died after they had been bitten by dogs and infected with rabies.
Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of rabid animals such as dogs.
Two children die of rabies
Monday 10th October , 2016 12:30 pm
Two children died through rabies in 2015 in the Tain District of the Brong-Ahafo Region after they were bitten by infected dogs.
Dr Saviour Denueme, the Regional Director of the Veterinary Services, said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA on Thursday in Sunyani.
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