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30th Oral Rabies Vaccination Air-Drop Program Launches in South Texas

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January 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Oral Rabies Vaccination Program (ORVP) in South Texas, which has successfully controlled and prevented domestic dog / coyote variant rabies and gray fox variant rabies infections among wildlife, livestock, and people.
No human rabies cases have been attributable to any of these variants in Texas since the ORVP began.
Texas Department of State Health Services’ airdrop flights launched on January 9, 2024, from Edinburg in Hidalgo County, distributing rabies vaccine baits over 18 border counties.

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Will Vaccines Reach a Tipping Point in 2024

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With the decreasing uptake of well-known influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published an insightful editorial regarding the future of virology in the United States.
Published by The JAMA Network on January 5, 2024, Peter Marks, MD, PhD, and Robert Califf, MD wrote a Viewpoint titled: Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?