The INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON RESEARCH ADVANCES IN RABIES CONTROL IN THE AMERICAS", is an annual meeting that has been held since 1990 in the USA, Canada and Mexico, including Peru (2000), Republica Dominicana (2004) and Brasil (2006). The meeting has allowed, researchers, directors of national and municipal programs, laboratory workers, and in general all those involved in rabies surveillance, prevention and control to come together.

The presentations are a result of the of the efforts of countless investigators, students and operative personnel, who work with this disease on a daily basis, and who willingly share their experiences with the collaborative spirit needed to fight this terrible disease which the world has known for too long.

We hope that the new findings reported in this international meeting will result in elimination of this disease, to the benefit of the communities in our countries, also, celebrating this event in Guanajuato offers an opportunity to know and to coexist within a cultural atmosphere, the " International Cervantino Festival".


Guanajuato History

The word "Guanajuato" comes from "tarasco", "Quanaxhuato", that means to "Frogs mountainous place". With time the indigenous vocabulary became finally "Guanajuato". (pronounced - guana-what-oh) During the XV century the city was in a thick forest.

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