摘要：Rabies – a viral zoonosis– is recognized as a priority disease for global and national level control measures.1–3 Key interventions for rabies control include vaccination for high-risk individuals, surveillance of human cases, post-exposure prophylaxis following animal bites, vaccination and/or culling of the canine population and other animal reservoirs. Despite the known effectiveness of these interventions,4 many national policy-makers across Africa and Asia hesitate to introduce them.5,6 We argue that this hesitation may be caused by advocacy for technical solutions that do not account for local requirements of policy-makers and implementers.
