To check Oneindia News on your Mobile
go to:   http://m.oneindia.in/news/
  •  

India to be rabies free country in next ten years

New Delhi July 10 (ANI): Minister of State for Environment and Forest, Jairam Ramesh said here today that India would be a rabies free country within next ten years.

Speaking after releasing a book on animal birth control, Ramesh said, government has taken up the issue of rabies control as a challenge, and allotted 200 crore rupees for the project.

Animal birth control programme for stray dogs and their effective anti-rabies immunization will be implemented seriously, Ramesh said.

Ramesh also informed that country imports rabies vaccine of worth Rs 400 crore every year.

He suggested that a rabies free road map and a mission document should be prepared which also include the over all cost, role of state governments, civic and local bodies, organizational plan etc. with a target to achieve it in 10 years time. (ANI)

New knockout vaccine reverses rabies in mice after just one injection

London, July 7 (ANI): A knockout vaccine for rabies that reverses the disease after just one injection may soon hit the market, thanks to promising findings on mice.The team of American virologists and immunologists, who have engineered the new strain of the rabies virus, say that it induces a far more potent immune response than current vaccines.They have revealed that in mice already infected with a virulent rabies strain, a single administration of the new vaccine was enough to.....
User Comments
[ Post Comments ]
Be the first to comment on this article.
Oneindia  Oneindia Login