Welcome on the SEARG website

History of the group and its main objectives are presented on the following pages.

A recent page has been created in Facebook, it can be reached with this link.

This page is designed to give information and to act as a forum for the general public as well as rabies experts. People are able to post there:

• questions about rabies;
• news about rabies in their country;
• landmarks for rabies control, surveillance and prevention in their country;
• any other relevant rabies information, including links to new publications and milestones in rabies awareness and education campaigns.

Posts may be sent either in English to T. Scott or in French to J. Barrat

Along with the updating process, downloadable files corresponding to every page of the section will be made available.

We need designed focal points who will be the correspondents for rabies data in their countries. These focal points are intended to report on a quarterly basis human and animal rabies cases in the area, at a regional (preferably) or national level in their country.
Collected data should include laboratory confirmed cases, both positive and negative, for people, dogs, other domestic animals, bats and other wildlife, suspicions for human rabies and dog bites reports.

This corresponds to what was proposed in Maputo see the slides (0,4MB).

The editorial group may be contacted at this address for any information.

Between 27 and 31 July 2009, a training session on rabies diagnosis has been organised in Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa. 16 delegates attended the session.

This new section will provide information about rabies: virus, epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and control measures.

The French version of the SEARG website is regularly updated from the original English version.

This website is maintained to be both an information tool and an exchange platform for people interested in Rabies, so please do not hesitate to send comments to the webmaster group. j.barrat@searg.info