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Maputo set to vaccinate 2,000 cats and dogs to prevent rabies
4:43 CAT | 24 Sep 2018
File photo: Lusa
At least 2,000 dogs and cats will be vaccinated in September against rabies, the Mozambican agricultural authorities announced on Monday.
“We are providing 500 vaccines for each veterinary clinic we work with so that they can administer the vaccine free of charge,” said Margarida Mussimbute, the veterinary physician in the city’s agriculture directorate said.
The vaccination programme will be enforced by eight private clinics and by the faculty of veterinary science of the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), which will receive the vaccines to administer free of charge to animals.
Some of the clinics involved in the campaign have given assistance in local neighbourhoods.
In addition to the animal vaccination, the city of Maputo has 680 doses of the rabies vaccine for human victims of animal bites for the next three months.
From January to June of this year, 12 people lost their lives after a total of 1,689 cases of animal bites, mainly from dogs.
Source: Lusa
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