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National Rabies Strategic Plan - 2023-2027 - Liberia

In Liberia, dog rabies is endemic, and surveillance systems and disease control activities are still being strengthened. However, rabies vaccination in humans has been documented since 1949. After the civil war from 1989-2003 and the devastating Ebola outbreak from 2014-2015, healthcare services and infrastructure were substantially weakened.

Dog-related rabies has been eliminated from most developed countries, including Western Europe, Canada, the USA, and Japan, with great strides from Latin American countries, which have reported no human rabies deaths from infected rabid animals. In addition, significant progress has been made in reducing the disease burden in countries like Bangladesh, Tanzania, South Africa, and Vietnam. The lessons learned in rabies control in these places are important in ending dog-mediated human rabies deaths in endemic countries, especially Sub-Saharan Countries.