Rabies in Vietnam

Morgan West

Sociology 202

09/28/10

9:00 PM

In Vietnam, there has been an increasing amount of rabies deaths. According to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the cause is a decreasing management watch and an ignorance of the warning that was given. Although his could be a contributing cause, there could also be other factors. One of these other factors is the population of people who live in rural parts of Vietnam, who eat unvaccinated dogs. Eating a do, without knowing if it is vaccinated, is obviously a very serious risk for the country. Rabies is a horrible disease that effects close to 60,000. Very few dogs in Vietnam are vaccinated, which will not help this outbreak. If dogs do not being to be vaccinated then there could be an exponential amount of people getting rabies. The problem with vaccinating dogs is that most of the dogs are traded without the government’s knowledge. Without close watch of dogs and the rabies spread, it can effect even more than it already does.

This is a very serious problem that the Vietnamese population needs to be aware of. This article directly relates to the huge problem that rabies can cause if it does not get controlled. I think it is ridiculous that the health authorities have not done anything about this. They had sufficient warning, and yet they have not yet they did not properly warn the citizens of Vietnam. This article goes into detail about the causes of rabies and what should be doing not to stop it. I would have liked to see a more extensive report and explanation on what rabies is, so that the readers know the seriousness of the disease spreading. The article explains what should happen, as of right now. This was a very interesting article, and rabies in Vietnam is a very serious problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/health/28glob.html?ref=health