Barriers and opportunities for improving dog bite prevention and dog management practices in northern Indigenous communities

Barriers and opportunities for improving dog bite prevention and dog management practices in northern Indigenous communities

Globally, people living in northern Indigenous communities are at higher risk of dog bites than the rest of the population living in North America, with annual incidence ranging from 0.61 to 59.6/10,000 inhabitants. Considering that rabies is endemic in wild canid populations in certain regions of t...

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Main Authors: Laurence Daigle, André Ravel, Francis Lévesque, Kabimbetas Noah Mokoush, Yves Rondenay, Audrey Simon, Cécile Aenishaenslin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Subjects:
dog bites
prevention
epidemiology
Indigenous
northern communities
public health
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2023.1199576/full

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