The World Philately News Dt 28.09.2021
The French scientist developed the first successful rabies vaccine which was administered to Joesph Meister a nine year old shepherd boy who had been mauled by a rabid dog on July 06, 1885
#1 FDC of stamp issued by France on Louis Pasteur in 1973
# FDC of stamp issued by France on the 100th anniversary of rabies vaccine in 1985
The stamps feature the Louis Pasteur and Joesph Meister the first person to receive the rabies vaccine.
The private envelopes depict the Statue of Jupile at Pasteur Institute, Paris who was the second person to receive the vaccine
An OPE by Dr. M.K.Sudhakar MD, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, TNMMC, Chennai
Life Member SIPA Chennai
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World Rabies Day is an international awareness campaign coordinated by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, a non-profit organization with headquarters in the United States.
WRD is a United Nations observance and has been endorsed by World Health Organization and international human and veterinary health organizations.
World Rabies Day takes place each year on September 28, the death anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur the French chemist and microbiologist who developed the first efficacious rabies vaccine.
Rabies is a 100% preventable disease however more than 60000 people die from the disease around the world each year.
World Rabies Day includes promoting government involvement in rabies prevention and control programs, increasing the vaccination coverage of pets and community dogs, and improving the educational awareness of how to prevent rabies in all levels of society.
To raise awareness about the impact of rabies on humans and animals, provide information and advice on how to prevent the disease in at-risk communities, and support advocacy for increased efforts in rabies control.
Rabies remains a significant public health problem in many countries of the world. Over 99% of all human deaths caused by rabid dog bites happen in the developing world with 95% of deaths occurring in Africa and Asia.
The first World Rabies Day campaign took place on 8 September 2007
World Rabies Day is observed in over 100 countries, 100 million people been educated about rabies, nearly 3 million dogs had been vaccinated during campaign.
WHO has pledged to eliminate human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030.
WRD THEMES
2007 :
2008 :
2009 :
2010 :
2011 :
2012 : Getting the message out about rabies prevention
2013 : Rabies: understand it to defeat it
2014 : Together Against Rabies
2015 : End Rabies Together
2016 : Rabies: Educate. Vaccinate. Eliminate
2017 : Rabies: Zero by 30
2018 : Rabies. Share the message. Save a life.
2019 : Rabies: Vaccinate to Eliminate
2020 : End Rabies: Collaborate, Vaccinate
2021 : Rabies: Facts, not Fear
An OPE by Dr. M.K.Sudhakar MD, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, TNMMC, Chennai
Life Member SIPA Chennai
Courtesy: Pratap ji
*World Rabies Day* is observed to raise awareness about rabies and its prevention. The day aims to enhance the knowledge about the disease and is observed in many countries. September 28, annually is observed as World Rabies day.
Rabies is a zoonotic disease that is transmitted from animals to humans. It is caused by the rabies virus that originates from the Lyssavirus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. As Per WHO, around 20,000 rabies deaths occurred in India every year. Rabies has killed more people in India in the last five years than COVID-19. On a special day, the global rabies community among others helps to inform and tackle this transmissible disease.
World Rabies Day History
For the first time, World Rabies Day was celebrated on September 28 in 2007. The event was a collaboration between Alliance for Rabies Control and the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA. Together with the World Health Organization (WHO). The two organizations started this day after the world suffered from the adverse effects of Rabies.
World Rabies Day 2021: Significance
World Rabies Day is an important day for the world to acknowledge the terror in people of the disease. Rabies is contracted through all mammals and especially wild animals. September 28th is a vital date in medical history on account of Louis Pasteur’s death anniversary.
The day focuses on better care for animals and spreading little knowledge on tackling an adverse situation like rabies. It is aimed to end the disease occurrence by the year 2030.
Health organizations all over the world chose this day to focus on vaccination camps for rabies and en-masse people participation to prevent the disease. This day is celebrated through Marathon runs sponsored by health firms and veterinary groups, quizzes, essay competitions, and other awareness campaigns.
World Rabies Day 2021Theme
This year's theme for World Rabies day is: "Rabies: Facts, not Fear” based on ending the fear from the people and empowering them with the facts. This year’s theme is focused on sharing facts about rabies, and not spreading fear about the disease by relying on misinformation and myths. Last year the theme was “End Rabies: Collaborate, Vaccinate” and for 2019 the theme was “Rabies: Vaccinate to eliminate," followed by 2018's theme which was“Rabies: Share the message, save a life”.
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In 1920, he started the canal satyagraha, also known as the Nahar satyagraha, at a village called Kandel in Dhamtari Tehsil. This was an act of civil resistance against an irrigation tax by the British Raj.
In 1921-22 he was arrested by the authorities, which is considered to be the first arrest in Chhattisgarh related to the independence movement. Courtesy Mr Baskaran SIPA
He was a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European.
The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age. By the end of his life he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness, was fluent in a further eight, with a dictionary at hand, and had a fair competence in another twelve.
In the Subcontinent he was entranced by Indian culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship, and on 15 January 1784 he founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. He studied the Vedas with R─Бmalocana, a pandit teaching at the Nadiya Hindu university, becoming a proficient Sanskrit. Jones kept up a ten-year correspondence on the topic of jyotisa or Hindu astronomy with fellow orientalist Sam and learnt the ancient concept of Hindu Laws.
Over the next ten years he would produce a flood of works on India, launching the modern study of the subcontinent in virtually every social science. He also wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and geography, and made the first English translations of several important works of Indian literature.
Courtesy Mr Baskaran SIPA
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