Jakarta Targets to Vaccinate 33,400 Animals This Year
Reported by Rezki Apriliya Iskandar | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
This is our efforts to protect the capital city from rabies
The Jakarta Maritime, Agriculture and Food Security (KPKP) Agency is targeting to vaccinate 33,400 animals this year.
Jakarta KPKP Agency Acting Head Suharini Eliawati said, the anti-rabies vaccination was scheduled in all regions of Jakarta. Those 33,400 animals consisted of 7,200 in West Jakarta, 6,800 in South Jakarta, 7,500 in East Jakarta, 4,500 in North Jakarta, and 1,600 in Thousand Islands.
In 2020, South Jakarta KPKP Has Vaccinated 9,225 Animals"This is our efforts to protect the capital city from rabies," she expressed, Wednesday (1/6).
She explained, since 2004, Jakarta was declared free of rabies and is currently one of the eight provinces declared free of rabies apart from Bangka Belitung, Riau Islands, Central Java, East Java, DI Yogyakarta, Papua and West Papua.
"That's why the main strategy that must be done is to prepare group immunity through free rabies vaccination services," she exclaimed.
She continued, rabies is an acute infectious disease that attacks the central nervous system in humans and warm-blooded animals. It is transmitted through the saliva of infected dogs, cats and monkeys by biting or through open wounds.
"It is hoped that various policy and strategic efforts can maintain Jakarta as a rabies-free area," she stated.
