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Professor Christl Donnelly CBE FMedSci FRS

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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School of Public HealthWhite City Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Radhakrishnan:2020:10.3390/tropicalmed5040162,
author = {Radhakrishnan, S and Vanak, AT and Nouvellet, P and Donnelly, C},
doi = {10.3390/tropicalmed5040162},
journal = {Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease},
title = {Rabies as a public health concern in India – a historical perspective},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5040162},
volume = {5},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - India bears the highest burden of global dog-mediated human rabies deaths. Despite this, rabies is not notifiable in India and continues to be underprioritised in public health discussions. This review examines the historical treatment of rabies in British India, a disease which has received relatively less attention in the literature on Indian medical history. Human and animal rabies was widespread in British India, and treatment of bite victims imposed a major financial burden on the colonial Government of India. It subsequently became a driver of Pasteurism in India and globally and a key component of British colonial scientific enterprise. Efforts to combat rabies led to the establishment of a wide network of research institutes in India and important breakthroughs in development of rabies vaccines. As a result of these efforts, rabies no longer posed a significant threat to the British, and it declined in administrative and public health priorities in India towards the end of colonial rule—a decline that has yet to be reversed in modern-day India. The review also highlights features of the administrative, scientific and societal approaches to dealing with this disease in British India that persist to this day.
AU  - Radhakrishnan,S
AU  - Vanak,AT
AU  - Nouvellet,P
AU  - Donnelly,C
DO  - 10.3390/tropicalmed5040162
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 2414-6366
TI  - Rabies as a public health concern in India – a historical perspective
T2  - Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5040162
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/5/4/162
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/84855
VL  - 5
ER  -
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