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companions to get rabies shots. In contrast,
North American veterinarians often prefer the
blitz-neuter approach, descending on com-
munities, vaccinating and neutering as many
dogs as they can catch, and then moving on,
feeling good about themselves. There is no
requirement for community involvement, nor
is there any capacity left behind to deal with
the problem. orldwide, W both the blitz-neuter
approach and Guatemala’s poison-and-vac-
cinate strategy have had, at best, mixed suc-
cess—there is little evidence of any kind about
the impacts of such programmes.
There are good, cheap rabies vaccines for
animals, but the problem is convincing people
to use them on callejeros. The big international
donors don’t “do” animals; their diseases
are considered unimportant, even though
rabies kills at least 55,000 people around the
world annually. Few health workers see dogs
as essential players in the ecology of human
health. Governments wait until someone gets
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