By Dr J.Garnier | Project director
Rabies is a zoonotic diseases that is entirely preventable through vaccination and we have already conducted rabies vaccination campaigns in the project area. However, cases of rabies can still occur when dogs remain unvaccinated, which happen with feral dogs roam free in the argan forest. The issue of feral dogs is a complex one: they don't belong to anybody specific but still people occasionnaly feed them in villages. In addition, they also find abundant food in large garbage dumps, some of which are spread around the argan forest.
On the occasion of World Rabies Day on September, 28th, the feral dogs challenge was discussed at a round table organized by One Health Morocco with many stakeholders from various insitutions being present. After lengthy discussions looking at root causes of the problems in an inter-disciplinary manner - the very essence of One Health - it was agreed that a loophole in legislation on dogs' ownership was contributing to the problem of feral dogs. As a result, this issue is going to be examined in more depth in order to fill in legislation gaps and decrease the rabies threat represented by unvaccinated dogs.
From field actions to policy making, this is One Health in Action in the argan forest and we need your support more than ever.
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