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Can the world end rabies deaths by 2030?

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Rabies continues to kill despite effective animal and human rabies vaccines. Rabies control needs to go beyond human and animal health services. September 28th, 2016 marked the tenth annual World Rabies Day, hosted by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC). A recent blog discusses the progress that has been made and the  international goal of eliminating the public health threat of canine-transmitted rabies by the year 2030.

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3. PERSPECTIVE

   More harm than good? The questionable ethics of medical volunteering and international student placements

   Irmgard Bauer

   Published on: 6 March 2017
4. REVIEW

   The salivary gland as a target for enhancing immunization response

   Todd A. Ponzio and John W. Sanders

   Published on: 17 February 2017
5. REVIEW

   Vectored immunoprophylaxis: an emerging adjunct to traditional vaccination

   John W. Sanders and Todd A. Ponzio

   Published on: 10 February 2017
6. RESEARCH

   Molecular characterization and antibiotic resistance profiles of Salmonella isolated from fecal matter of domestic animals and animal products in Nairobi

   Diana Nyabundi, Nyamongo Onkoba, Rinter Kimathi, Atunga Nyachieo, Gerald Juma, Peter Kinyanjui and Joseph Kamau

   Published on: 13 January 2017
7. REVIEW

   Vaccination of HIV-infected pregnant women: implications for protection of their young infants

   Ziyaad Dangor, Marta C. Nunes, Gaurav Kwatra, Sanjay G. Lala and Shabir A. Madhi

   Published on: 6 January 2017

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Dr Mark Riddle

Dr Riddle is a Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy, is board certified in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine, and maintains an active clinical travel medicine practice. He specializes in vaccine and drug development, acute travel health issues, chronic consequences of acute infectious disease, vaccine health economics and market assessment. He also serves as an associate editor of BMC Gastroenterology, and on the Research Review Committees for both the International Society of Travel Medicine and the American College of Gastroenterology. Dr Riddle is the co-author of over 100 peer reviewed publications and two book chapters on travelers’ diarrhea.

Dr Riddle's serves as Editor-in-Chief in a capacity outside of his duty as a US Government employee. As such the content, views and opinions represented in the journal do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, nor the U.S. Government.