World Rabies Day 2021
28 September 2021 - 15th World Rabies Day
World Rabies Day was created to raise awareness and advocate for rabies elimination globally and is designed to unite all people, organisations, and stakeholders against rabies. Held every year on September 28, this date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur – the first person to successfully create a vaccine against rabies.
The theme of this year’s World Rabies Day is ‘Rabies: Facts not Fear’. The focus of the day is on highlighting the facts about rabies and dispelling common misconceptions. Fear of rabies leads to the inhumane culling of millions of dogs globally every year and doesn’t stop rabies.
Tune into the #WorldRabiesDay hashtag on social media for all the facts.
A dedicated #WorldRabiesDay Vaccination Campaign
In the run up to World Rabies Day, last Saturday 25 September we launched our latest anti-rabies vaccination and spay-neuter campaign in the Arusha Region, focusing on protecting an area of high population density in the Northern Wards of Arusha City council.
Part of our ongoing campaign to create a rabies-free buffer zone around the city, the campaign follows city council reports of dogs migrating into the north of the city from the surrounding regions.
This two-week vaccination campaign is generously funded by the Good Gifts Catalogue, whilst the spay-neuter campaign is funded by our regular campaign partners, FAVI.
For the duration of the campaign, we will also be participating in an important new research project relating to the facial recognition of dogs, in association with the Universities of Glasgow and Washington State, gathering vital data to advance the cutting edge of scientific understanding.
Watch a short Facebook video from Day 2 of our #WorldRabiesDay vaccination programme via Mbwa Wa Africa Animal Rescue.
Since 2015, we have been successfully working with partners in Tanzania to eliminate rabies one town at a time - saving human and animal lives and ending suffering. Please Donate: with your support, together we will wipe out rabies much sooner.