28 September, Trongsa-Wangdue: More than 100 participants gathered at the Sherubling Higher Secondary School in Trongsa to celebrate the World Rabies Day, organised by the Dzongkhag Livestock Sector for the first time. The day is celebrated on 28 September worldwide.
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15-22 September, Phuentsholing: More than 75 participants including the officials from the livestock, health, police, disaster management and BAFRA completed an eight day training on ‘Commodity program on Avian Influenza with simulation exercises for the containment and response to Bird Flu (H5N1 and H7N9). It was organised by the Regional Livestock Development Centre (RLDC), Tsimasham
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Rabies is a fatal and neglected zoonotic disease that causes an estimated 55,000 deaths in annually withan average of one death every 10 minutes in the world.Most of these deaths occurin developing countries of Asia (about 20,000 deaths per year in India alone) and Africa where domestic dogsare the principal reservoir and a vector for human rabies transmission,and where rabies control programmes are inadequate.
Rabies was prevalent in most parts of Bhutan until the early 1990s but has been controlled mainly through mass vaccination and sterilization program. Currently rabies is prevalent in the southern districts of Bhutan bordering India and causes deaths in both human and livestock. However, re-emergence of rabies in dogs and subsequent spill-over infection to other domestic animals have also been reported in previously free areas of east and south-western districts of Bhutan indicating the risk of re-emergence of rabies in the country if proper surveillance and control program are not implemented. Fifty-nine of the 205 sub-districts have reported rabies in animals from 1996 to 2012 with increased incidences in the four districts in southern Bhutan (Sarpang, Chhukha, Samtse, Samdrup Jongkhar). A total of 943 rabies cases were reported in domestic animals during the same period. Dogs are the main reservoirs for rabies in Bhutan and therefore, it is important to control rabies in dogs through vaccination and sterilization.
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25 September, Thimphu: Hon’ble Lyonpo, Yeshey Dorji, the Minister for Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) met Mr Wencai Zhang, the Vice President, Operation 1 for the Asian development Bank (ADB).
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19 September 2014: His Excellency Lyonpo Yeshi Dorji accompanied by senior officials from Ministry of Agriculture and Forests visited Eusakha, Susuna, Naja geog of Paro and Eusu, Bji and Tshelungkha under Haa Dzongkhag. During his visit, he met with local leaders and hundreds of people residing in the various surrounding villages and discussed their difficulties, shared their hopes and dreams.
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