By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- Investigators publish new report on Rhabdoviridae Infections - Rabies. According to news reporting originating in Camden, Australia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “In this qualitative study implemented in November 2016, we elicited narratives about fictional rabies incursions from key employees (n = 16) of the National Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection Authority in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to explore the potential circumstances and routes of entry of a rabies-infected dog, and direct rabies preparedness. Although PNG is rabies free, proximity to rabies-endemic Indonesia poses a risk of introduction and it is expected that an outbreak in PNG would have devastating human health impacts consistent with other countries with similarly low human development indices and abundant free-roaming dogs.”
Funders for this research include Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, NHMRC.
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Sydney, “Participants used their local and professional knowledge to create plausible narratives in response to contextual, but fictitious, newspaper stories. An ethnographic content analysis was used to extract themes and interpret the narratives. Themes were assessed in the context of their potential influence on rabies preparedness in PNG against the social and political background of PNG and relevant, published literature. Consistent themes included the ubiquity of trade and the complexity of routes between Indonesia and PNG. Dog ownership seemed pragmatic - actors in the narratives readily and rationally involved dogs in transactions in response to trade, exchange or gifting opportunities. Consequently, dogs changed ownership frequently. The findings of this study have important implications for rabies preparedness in PNG; there is potential for wide geographic dissemination of rabies in dogs before outbreak detection.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “However, common patterns of travel - trade of dogs via Papuan towns and use of traditional trade routes do provide opportunity for targeted surveillance and response in the event of an incursion.”
For more information on this research see: Going viral in PNG Exploring routes and circumstances of entry of a rabies infected dog into Papua New Guinea. Social Science & Medicine , 2018;196():10-18. Social Science & Medicine can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Social Science & Medicine - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-and-medicine/)
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting V.J. Brookes, University of Sydney, Sydney Sch Vet Sci, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia. Additional authors for this research include C. Degeling and M.P. Ward.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.006. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-03-06), Researchers from University of Sydney Detail Findings in Rabies (Going viral in PNG Exploring routes and circumstances of entry of a rabies infected dog into Papua New Guinea), Life Science Weekly, 3313, ISSN: 1552-2474, BUTTER® ID: 015247283
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