Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023) – 5 articles
Cover Picture: A locally-made intestine bait and an industrially manufactured egg-flavored bait were readily taken up by local dogs in Bali. This ready acceptance of trial baits offers a unique opportunity to deliver effective oral rabies vaccination (ORV) to dogs that cannot be easily caught and restrained for parenteral vaccination. Most field workers consider ORV to be better suited than capture-vaccinate-release (CVR) for vaccinating these free-roaming dogs. The human risk assessment indicated that in Bali, there is a risk, albeit small, that people can come in contact with the vaccine through direct contact with dogs previously offered a bait. Hence, only vaccines with a high safety profile should be used. ORV should replace the presently used method of CVR for free-roaming dogs as a complementary tool to increase vaccination coverage and thus to effectively interrupt rabies transmission among dogs. This will support the elimination of dog-mediated rabies from Bali, and potentially from other areas of Indonesia.
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