World Rabies Day (september 28, 2008) - The second official global initiative to increase awareness, improve preventive efforts and reduce mortality from this uniformly fatal Disease

Asian Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-347

  Dedmon, Robert E ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Rabies; Rabies education; World Rabies Day (WRD)

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; NOTE; RABIES; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 70349305717     PISSN: 19057415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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