{"id":149568,"date":"2020-11-11T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=149568"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:17:02","slug":"13-november-is-dog-and-cat-vaccination-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/11\/11\/13-november-is-dog-and-cat-vaccination-day\/","title":{"rendered":"13 November is dog and cat rabies vaccination day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Jornada-Vacunacion-Perros-y-Gatos-El-Dia-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149623\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health announced free rabies vaccines for dogs and cats in Greater Santo Domingo and provinces will be available for free as of National Rabbies Vaccination Day that is held on 13 November 2020. The vaccines will be available in Greater Santo Domingo and many other provinces during the annual campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuel Tejeda, director of the Center for Prevention and Control of Vector-transmitted Diseases and Zoonoses (Cecovez) said that brigades will also be active in the provinces to inoculate the animals. Those interested should contact the Ministry for the locations of the vaccination teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our objective is to carry out this vaccination day to break the chain of infection. These actions will continue periodically at a national level until we reach a high level of vaccination coverage,&#8221; said Tejada. He pointed out the importance of taking care of the health of pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little over a year ago, an outbreak of human rabies broke out in Pedernales province, affecting three young people, two of whom died. The vaccinating of dogs and cats is a way to prevent this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tejada said the operation includes house by house visits. More than one million dosis are expected to be applied. The campaign costs RD$26 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tejada highlighted that no rabies cases were known as of Week #39 reported in the Epidemiology Department (DIGEPI) bulletin of the Ministry of Public Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.gob.do\/web\/?p=9108\">Ministry of Public Health<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 November 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health announced free rabies vaccines for dogs and cats in Greater Santo Domingo and provinces will be available for free as of National Rabbies Vaccination Day that is held on 13 November 2020. The vaccines will be available in Greater Santo Domingo and many other provinces during the annual campaign. Manuel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/11\/11\/13-november-is-dog-and-cat-vaccination-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149624,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149568\/revisions\/149624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}