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Coordination of activities for study and management of dog populations in the Americas Leon D , Vigilato MAN* , Del Río V , Cosivi O 1 Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis, Veterinary Public Health Unit 2 Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia -Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia 1, 2
INTRODUCTION Each year, about 70 000 people die from rabies in the world, and almost 95% of the cases are caused by infected dog bites. In Latin America, 11 subnational units still have recorded cases of human rabies in the last years. The Meeting of Directors of National Programs for Rabies Control in Latin America (REDIPRA) considers the participation of every country and also other international organizations and agencies collaborate, this brings an inter-institutional approach for rabies elimination. During the REDIPRA 14 the Working Group 1, in charge of recommendation for “Coordination of activities on the study and management of dog populations in the Americas”, was formed.
AIM To understand some basic parameters related with the dog population dynamics and also to show some results of the activities planned within the working group 1.
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Table 2. Dog:human ratio found in studies for estimated owned dogs in the Americas Dog:human City (Country) ratio 1:3 Maule (Chile) 1:3,9 Manchay (Perú) 1:7 San Martín de Porres (Perú) Santa Cruz de la Sierra 1:4,3 (Bolivia) 1:2,3 Chillán (Chile) 1:16,13 Bucaramanga (Colombia) 1:4,1 Viña del Mar (Chile) 1:5,59 Aracatuba (Brasil) 1:2,2 San José de Tzal (México) 1:4 Sao Paulo (Brasil) 1:5,14 Taboão da Serra (Brasil) 1:4 México DF (México) 1:5 Serra Azul (Brasil) 1:4,14 El Bosque (Chile) 1:7,45 Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1:4,51 General Pico (Argentina)
Reference Maripangui, 2014. Málaga et al., 2014. Arauco, 2014. Loza et al., 2012. Jorquera, 2011. Arismendy et al., 2010. Morales et al., 2009. Andrade et al., 2008. Ortega et al., 2007. Alves et al., 2005. Días et al., 2004. Romero et al., 2003. Matos et al., 2002. Ibarra et al., 1997. Anderson et al., 1994. Larrieu et al., 1992.
METHODS A bibliographic search of methodologies and applied studies to estimate dog populations in different countries of the Americas was held. The information is systematized to generate a summary table which includes the title, author, year of publication, place of study, key results and web link location. The information was located on the “Health Virtual Library – Biblioteca Virtual de Salud” (BVS) of PAHO, this website is freely available. Under the same format, the information is organized into a “sharepoint” on PAHO web site. In this case, access is restricted only to authorized users. Finally using the Google Tool “MyMaps” a map with the information by geographical location was developed; it can be filtered by year of publication, dog category and methodology.
CONCLUSIONS R E S U LT S Table 1. Distribution of bibliography about dog population distributed according to document approach Type of document
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Dog population control
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12,9
Methodologies to estimate dog population
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12,9
Applied studies
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74,19
62
100.00
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The information will be useful for developing baselines, improved planning and evaluation of programs for prevention and control of canine rabies and other veterinary public health programs for zoonoses surveillance, prevention and control. It is very important to collect and systematize information through tools that facilitate access and selection of documents, particularly the thesis studies, which often are not available on the web. Thus we hope to motivate exchange among member countries and facilitate the transfer of knowledge to professionals involved in this field.
