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On the 24th September 2017, just 4 days before WORLD RABIES DAY, individuals from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) are taking on individual challenges as part of the Surrey Hills Challenge, (www.SurreyHillsChallenge.co.uk) a series of running events over different distances in the challenging setting of the Surrey hills.

The team is split across the different distances with:

Tony Fooks, Elsa Barrero, Louise Kidd, Vidhya Narayanan, Sam Smith and Vanessa Ceeraz running the 5km event

Daniel Dorey-Robinson, Daisy Jennings, Nick Johnson and Kelsey Cook running the 10km event

Daniel Hicks, Ronan McCarthy and Scott Reid running the 20k event

Ashley Banyard running (likely walking!) the 60km event

This is just in time for World Rabies Day, a global day of action and awareness for rabies prevention, and so what better charity to support than Mission Rabies!   

Who are Mission Rabies?

Mission Rabies is a UK-based charity and international NGO working to eliminate rabies by 2030.

Despite being 100% vaccine preventable rabies, the world’s deadliest zoonotic disease, results in the death of a child at least every nine minutes and it is estimated that a dog is killed through fear of this disease approximately every thirty seconds. It causes at least 70,000 human deaths annually, most of which are children, and most of which are in developing countries.

What do they do?

Following World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, Mission Rabies run mass canine vaccination programmes in India, Malawi, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. As 99% of all human rabies cases come from dogs, this method is the most effective way of preventing and eliminating rabies. Alongside their vaccination work,  they run lifesaving education programmes, as well as conducting original scientific research. 

For more information visit www.missionrabies.com.    

Why are we supporting them?

Because their results speak for themselves. In the last two years the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, has gone from having the highest incidence record of child rabies from a single institution in Africa, to only having 1 recorded child rabies death in 2016. In Ranchi there are have been no human rabies deaths in 2016, and only 1 reported in Goa for the same year. 

They are making a real difference, but they can't do it alone! 

Please give as much as you can to help eliminate rabies. 

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