New developments for the Canine Rabies Blueprint

The Blueprint for Canine Rabies Prevention and Control is now available online in Portuguese, Arabic and Russian, as well as the original English and French versions. It will also shortly be available in Spanish. The translations can be found by clicking on the tabs in the upper right corner of the home page, www.rabiesblueprint.com. The Blueprint brings together all of the practical advice and resources necessary for rabies control workers to implement effective control strategies in their areas, and we hope that by translating these tools, their impact will be all the greater around the world.

A new publication on the Blueprint, entitled " The Blueprint for Rabies Prevention and Control: A Novel Operational Toolkit for Rabies Elimination" written by Dr Tiziana Lembo of Glasgow University on behalf of the Partners for Rabies Prevention has just been published in the journal PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases. This describes the rationale for its development as well as an overview of what it contains, and should give the toolkit even greater visibility within the global rabies community.