A new study published in the Journal Science reveals that mass dog vaccinations, which have reportedly been undertaken by reaseachers in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia, might be the best way to eliminate rabies, according to Capitalotc.

Rabies is reportedly almost always transmitted due to the bite of a rabid dog. The deadly virus causes hydrophia in humans, which leads them having difficulty in swallowing water.

The disease has reportedly taken over 100,000 lives every year, mostly from African and Asian countries. It has reportedly been found that rabies are actually rare in the U.S. as well as other developed countries due to the routine vaccination of dogs.

"There is now convincing evidence that vacinnation of dogs would eliminate greater than 98 percent of the rabies health burden globally," stated Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health's director Guy Palmer.

He added, "Rabies is an ancient plague. Descriptions of human suffering and death can be seen since the earliest times of recorded history. Even today, rabies is the most consistently fatal infectious disease of humans."

Felix Lankester, director of the Serengeti Health Initiative that conducts dog vaccination campaigns in rural villages around Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, reportedly stated that "multiple small to medium sized areas would be targeted to create disease-free zones, then the size of those zones would be increased and the various zones would coalesce into a bigger disease-free regions," according to Reuters.

Lankester added "We know how and we have the ammunition to do it. I am optimistic that it can done. Whether the necessary political will and funding will be harnessed is another matter."