By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff reporter
LAOAG CITY—Vaccinators from
the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) are reaching to Ilocos Norte’s rural barangays
to ensure all dogs get an anti-rabies shot.
Amid the Holy Week season,
Dr. Jeneveve Suliva of the PVO said they have a fully booked schedule this
month and early next week for the massive dog vaccination drive.
On March 27, 2018, a team
from the PVO conducted border control in Badoc town, said PVO chief Dr. Loida
Valenzuela.
Until the end of March, the
PVO is offering free dog vaccination and neutering at the PVO laboratory
office.
This is in line with the declaration
of the rabies awareness month through Executive Order No. 84 signed on March
13, 1999, by then President Joseph Estrada.
The massive dog vaccination
and neutering is among the services of the PVO to achieve a zero-case of rabies
by 2020.
Records from the National
Rabies Prevention and Control program show there are approximately 300 to 600
Filipinos who die of rabies every year.
Rabies is a viral disease
that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and warm-blooded animals,
with dogs being the most commonly involved.
Early signs include fever and
tingling at the bite site, usually followed by violent excitability, a
fear of water, paralysis in some parts of the body, or loss of consciousness.
Once symptoms appear, the disease is nearly fatal. They usually show one to
three months after the bite.
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