American researchers from Washington State University have developed a mobile application to detect potentially dangerous dogs that can spread rabies. The article was published in the scientific journal magazine Scientific Reports (SciRep).
The team tested the program’s effectiveness at a veterinary clinic in Tanzania, where animals were vaccinated, microchipped and registered.
The technology has shown high efficiency. Operators using the app detected 76.2% of dogs with rabies vaccination and 98.9% of dogs without vaccination.
“As domestic dogs are the main source of human rabies, control of human rabies worldwide requires mass vaccination of dogs,” said Associate Professor Felix Lankester, lead author of the study.
Rabies causes approximately 60 thousand deaths in humans every year. Almost all cases of the disease occur in Asia and Africa. In 99% of cases, infection occurs after a dog bite. According to scientists, at least 40 percent of the animals living in the region need to be vaccinated to defeat the disease.
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Source: Gazeta
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