Economic Modeling of Oral Rabies Vaccination: Issues and Concepts

The oral vaccination of foxes against rabies

Oral Vaccination Campaigns of Dogs against Rabies

Effective control of terrestrial wildlife rabies seemed almost impossible in Europe until the development of oral vaccination. Nowadays, oral vaccination of foxes (Vulpes vulpes) by distributing vaccine baits is the method of choice in rabies control in most European countries. Consequently, large areas are now rabies-free and here baits are no longer distributed or the distribution of baits is...

Recent Advances in Oral Rabies Vaccination

The ability to successfully and consistently vaccinate foxes, dogs, and raccoons with modified live virus rabies vaccine (ERA) in the liquid form is an accomplished fact. However, methods of incorporating the vaccine virus into an acceptable bait for field distribution remains a major stumbling block to progress in the practical application of oral rabies vaccination. In addition, we have been ...

Economic evaluation of an oral rabies vaccination program for control of a domestic dog-coyote rabies epizootic: 1995-2006.

OBJECTIVE To conduct a benefit-cost analysis of the results of the domestic dog and coyote (DDC) oral rabies vaccine (ORV) program in Texas from 1995 through 2006 by use of fiscal records and relevant public health data. DESIGN Retrospective benefit-cost analysis. Procedures-Pertinent economic data were collected in 20 counties of south Texas affected by a DDC-variant rabies epizootic. The co...

A retrospective economic analysis of the Ontario red fox oral rabies vaccination programme.

Ontario initiated a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) oral rabies vaccination (ORV) programme in 1989. This study utilized a benefit-cost analysis to determine if this ORV programme was economically worthwhile. Between 1979 and 1989, prior to ORV baiting, the average annual human post-exposure treatments, positive red fox rabies diagnostic tests and indemnity payments for livestock lost to rabies were 22...