SHF Rabies Free Zone " Madurai "

Rabies is a viral infection that primarily spreads through a bite from an infected animal.Over 99% of human rabies cases are caused by an infected dog bite. Every year, millions of healthy dogs are inhumanely killed for fear of this deadly disease. However, this culling of dogs still doesn’t halt the spread of rabies, which causes the death of at least 59,000 people a year all around the world – the majority of which are children under 15 years of age.

The “SHF Rabies Free Zone Madurai” program is going to change that”.

According to scientific research the most effective rabies control strategy is through the vaccination of stray dogs in all rabies-risk areas. The Safe Home Foundation (SHF) non-profit organization / charity plans to conduct a mass rabies vaccination program in and around Madurai city and surrounding areas. In the first step, we will complete a comprehensive survey of the numbers of stray dogs in Madurai city and the surrounding areas. Based on the information from the survey, we will then conduct a mass rabies vaccination program, starting with the areas that are most at-risk of rabies transmission.

Our primary goal is to initially vaccinate at least 80% of the stray dogs within each area. We will then we consider such areas to essentially be a rabies free zone. This vaccination program will proceed across all areas in and around Madurai city and surrounding areas. Every year the mass vaccination program will be continued with the goal to eliminate rabies in Madurai city.

The SHF mass vaccination program aims to completely eliminate human deaths from rabies in an around Madurai city and surrounding areas. The comprehensive vaccination program will also in parallel, include educational programs to help protect both the human and canine populations.The „Human Education Programme‟ is designed to cultivate empathy and kindness to animals,through teaching children about animal‟s needs as well as sensitizing them to the suffering of animals.Safe Home Foundation‟s„Human Education Programme‟focuses on animal welfare, animal behaviour and bite prevention, the importance of vaccination and sterilisation,responsible pet ownership,zoonotic diseases including rabies and includes the animal welfare law in India.

We are going to start our mass vaccination program all over Madurai city and surrounding Area

1.This survey was completed by staff members from the Safe Home Foundation.
2. This survey was conducted with care and attention in each area and in each and every corner of the streets surveyed. However, it is recognized that this still remains an approximate value.

TOTAL SURVEY REPORT OF MADURAI CITY ATTACHED :-