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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">SUCCESS! on the 15th of August all 15 cyclists who departed from the Institute Pasteur, Paris, arrived safely back at AHVLA Weybridge. Very tired but very pleased to have completed this challenge for an important cause!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In August, a team of vets, scientists and epidemiologists will attempt the challenge of cycling between OIE reference laboratories starting at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France and cycling back to the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, UK to raise awareness for </span><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">WORLD RABIES DAY </span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong>RABIES</strong> continues to kill more than 55,000 people per year across the globe. Affecting mostly children and the impoverished, infection with rabies virus is invariably fatal once clinical disease is observed and is one of the most feared viruses on the planet.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the 3 days it will take the team to cycle the 200 mile route, GLOBALLY more than 400 people will </span><a style="mso-comment-reference: PC_1; mso-comment-date: 20110524T0932;"><span style="font-size: small;">die</span></a></span></strong><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">from rabies- most of which will be children </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>AWARENESS</strong> of this devastating disease and the simple preventative measures that can be taken are key to saving lives. <strong>VACCINATION </strong>of animals and <strong>EDUCATION</strong> of populations living in areas where the virus exists can dramatically alter the effect of the virus on the human population. Through the <strong>GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RABIES CONTROL </strong>and <strong>WORLD RABIES DAY</strong>, both educational material and provisions of vaccines are developed to <strong>RAISE AWARENESS</strong> where the virus is present and threatens human populations.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><cite><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.rabiescontrol.net/">www.<strong>rabiescontrol</strong>.net</a></span></cite></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><cite><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.worldrabiesday.org/"><span style="color: #800080;">www.<strong>worldrabiesday</strong>.org</span></a></span></cite></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt;">RABIES IS 100% PREVENTABLE- PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY TO HELP SAVE THE LIVES OF THOSE IN NEED</span></strong></p>
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