Centers for Disease Control
The Rabies Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia is responsible both domestically and internationally for providing epidemic aid, consultation, surveillance, epidemiologic studies, and ecologic investigations of rabies-associated illness. The CDC supports advances in rabies treatment, and promotes rabies prevention and control programs both in the United States and abroad. CDC serves as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, providing reference or diagnostic services throughout the world. The CDC Rabies Team is taking a lead role in promoting and encouraging World Rabies Day awareness activities around the world.

Fredrich-Loeffler-Institute
Created in 1910 the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut is one of the oldest virological institutes in the world.

The FLI was designated a "Collaborating Centre for Rabies Surveillance and Research" of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974 and also runs a "Collaborating Centre for Zoonoses in Europe" of the OIE. Important terms of reference of the WHO CC are to (i) collect, analyze and distribute rabies surveillance data via the Rabies Bulletin Europe, (ii) conduct research on oral vaccination of wildlife and dogs, epidemiological and laboratory diagnostics of rabies and epidemiology of rabies in neozoa and bats and (iii) to provid support and expertise for rabies surveillance and control measures.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health
Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, based in Boxmeer, the Netherlands, is focused on the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of animal health products. The company offers customers one of the broadest, most innovative animal health portfolios, spanning products to support performance and to prevent, treat and control disease in all major farm and companion animal species. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health; subsidiaries of Merck & Co. Inc., Whitehouse Station NJ, USA. For more information, visit www.intervet.com.

Sanofi Pasteur 
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, provided more than 1.6 billion doses of vaccine in 2007, making it possible to immunize more than 500 million people across the globe. A world leader in the vaccine industry, sanofi pasteur offers the broadest range of vaccines protecting against 20 infectious diseases. The Company's heritage, to create vaccines that protect life, dates back more than a century. Sanofi pasteur is the largest company entirely dedicated to vaccines. Every day, the company invests more than EUR 1 million in research and development. For more information, please visit: http://www.sanofipasteur.com/ or http://www.sanofipasteur.us/.

Merial
Merial is a world-leading, innovation-driven animal health company, providing a comprehensive range of products to enhance the health, well-being and performance of a wide range of animals. Merial employs approximately 5,700 people and operates in more than 150 countries worldwide. Its 2009 sales were $2.6 billion. Merial is the Animal Health subsidiary of sanofi-aventis. For more information, please see www.merial.com.

Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
Novartis Vaccines, the vaccines division of Novartis, is the world's fifth-largest vaccines business. Novartis Vaccines is the world's second-largest manufacturer of flu vaccines and has important meningococcal, pediatric and travel vaccine franchises. The company's portfolio of products includes vaccines for influenza, meningitis, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, Haemophilus influenzae B (Hib), polio, mumps, measles and rubella and diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). For more information, please visit http://www.novartis.com/.

Veterinary Laboratories Agency - VLA, United Kingdom 
The Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra ). It was created in 1995 following the merger of the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL), an agency since 1990, with the Veterinary Investigation Centres (VICs), formerly part of the State Veterinary Service of MAFF. It currently employs around 1,400 people including scientists, administrators, laboratory attendants, animal technicians and veterinarians. It is the national and international reference laboratory for a wide range of animal diseases. VLA is made up of 16 laboratories, which includes a 368-acre site at Weybridge in Surrey and 15 regional laboratories across the UK. The Weybridge site includes five farms. There are also two Surveillance Centres provided under contract by the Liverpool and London veterinary schools.

The Rabies and Wildlife Zoonoses Group (RWZG) based at VLA in Weybridge was designated a World Health Organisation Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Collaborating Centre for the characterisation of rabies and rabies-related viruses in 2002. This was followed in 2006 when the laboratory was designated an OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies. The RWZG forms part of the VLA Statutory and Exotic Virus (SEV) programme, which encompasses surveillance and research activities. Surveillance involves consultancy, maintenance of expertise, fieldwork, laboratory testing and test development. The research underpins the surveillance work and provides evidence required by Defra and the UK Department of Health (DoH), to inform policy and control strategies. The laboratory is licensed to undertake diagnostic testing on samples from both animal and human origin.

The VLA Mission Statement: "We safeguard public and animal health through world class veterinary research and surveillance".

World Veterinary Association
The World Veterinary Association serves the Veterinary Profession, Veterinary Medicine and Science and promotes its rights, standards and competence. It serves the societies at global international level. It promotes animal and human health and wellbeing through sustainable and humane use and management of animals. It contributes to the protection and sustainability of the environment.  

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is an intergovernmental organisation with a mandate from its 174 Member Countries and Territories to improve world animal health. In this capacity, the OIE is responsible for ensuring transparency of the animal disease situation worldwide, including diseases transmissible to humans, and the sanitary safety of world trade of animals and animal products. The OIE publishes international standards in all fields covered by its mandate, including animal welfare and food safety. 
Prevention of diseases at the animal source is the ultimate key in dealing with a prevalent and perennial zoonosis like rabies. Animal vaccination remains the method of choice to control and eradicate rabies. It is therefore the prime responsibility of the veterinary profession to apply its knowledge and skills in animal disease control to create a protective immune buffer between the animal source of the disease and susceptible human beings.
Good governance of veterinary services, better laboratory diagnostic capacity and vaccination campaigns in domesticated and wild animals are thus key actions to be taken. The OIE fully supports the efforts to raise public awareness of rabies and the need for collaboration with other professions and the public health sector.

Google Inc.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. See www.google.com. 

American Association of Feline Practitioners
The American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) improves the health and well-being of cats by supporting high standards of practice, continuing education, and scientific investigation. AAFP works to do all things necessary to promote the interests, to improve the public stature and increase the knowledge of veterinarians in the field of feline medicine and surgery.

American Veterinary Medical Association
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is one of the largest and oldest non-profit for veterinarians in the world.  The AVMA represents more than 75,000 veterinarians who use their professional training in a variety of ways – from private practice to public health, agriculture, food safety, academia, and the military.  The objective of the Association is to advance the science and art of veterinary medicine, including its relationship to public health, biological science, and agriculture.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations
The ASEAN Declaration states that the aims and purposes of the Association are: (1) to accelerate economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region and (2) to promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries in the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter. The ASEAN Vision 2020, adopted by the ASEAN Leaders on the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN, agreed on a shared vision of ASEAN as a concert of Southeast Asian nations, outward looking, living in peace, stability and prosperity, bonded together in partnership in dynamic development and in a community of caring societies. For more information, please visit http://www.aseansec.org/ or www.aseanplus3-eid.info.

boonDOCS
boonDOCS is a wilderness & travel medicine show that prepares viewers for medical emergencies that can occur in backcountry settings. Combining humor with real life know-how and accessible explanations, boonDOCS brings to life difficult medical concepts that viewers can incorporate into their own experiences in the field. boonDOCS is hosted by Andrew C. Krakowski, MD, founder and former director of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s course in wilderness medicine.

The British Small Animal Veterinary Association
The British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) exists to promote excellence in small animal practice through education and science.  The BSAVA is a professional body for veterinary surgeons who treat companion animals and now has over 5,500 members.  The majority of our members work in practice, and represent over a third of the working veterinary surgeons in the UK.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is dedicated to safeguarding food, animals and plants, which enhances the health and well-being of Canada’s people, environment and economy. The main objective of CFIA’s rabies program is to prevent the transmission of rabies from animals to humans. The CFIA rabies program investigates rabies exposures, provides rabies diagnostics and surveillance, and acts cooperatively with other jurisdictions in the management of rabies from wildlife.

Canadian Veterinary Medical Association
The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) is the national professional association of Canadian veterinarians. The association supports the veterinary profession through development of programs and services intended for its members. CVMA's three priorities are: the successful practice of veterinary medicine, leadership on national and international issues affecting the veterinary profession and animal welfare advocacy. The association publishes authoritative position statements on veterinary medicine and animal health and welfare issues, and two journals - The Canadian Veterinary Journal and The Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research. CVMA manages http://www.animalhealthcare.ca/, an interactive Web site for animal owners, and oversees the Canadian Veterinary Reserve, a source of pre-trained veterinarians and animal health technologists who may be called upon in declared emergencies to supplement relief efforts.

City Zero
City Zero and the Hackworth Design Studio specialize in website, logo design, and on-line marketing.  Hackworth Design has assisted the World Rabies Day Coordination team in the development of multi-language logos, website graphics, and an aggressive eMarketing campaign.

Federation of Veterinarians of Europe
The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) is an umbrella organisation of veterinarinary organisations from 36 European countries. FVE aims to unite the European veterinary profession for the benefit of animal health, animal welfare and public health, working through the "One Health" concept. FVE also represent 4 vibrant sections, each of which representing key groups within our profession: Practitioners (UEVP), Hygienists (UEVP), Veterinary State Officers (EASVO) and veterinarians in Education, Research and Industry (EVERI).  

National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (US)
The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) helps direct and develop uniform public health procedures involving zoonotic disease in the United States and its territories.

A Rabies Free World
A Rabies Free World is a non-profit organization founded in 2003 to help reduce rabies suffering. RFW advocates education, support for research and targeted intervention. Information for school children about rabies is available at www.rabiesfree.org. RFW supports the Starfish Palliative Care Program for rabies patients and 'click2vaccinate' which provides rabies vaccines for dogs in the Philippines. RFW is proud to partner with the Alliance for Rabies Control in support of World Rabies Day!

Veterinarians Without Borders - Germany
VSF Germany is a non-governmental, non-profit making organisation, engaged in the field of veterinary relief and development work. VSF Germany's work focuses on those people whose livelihoods depend heavily on livestock. It is our goal to improve their living conditions. For them, healthy animals do not only have a high cultural value but simply mean food security and income generation. VSF Germany works in about 20 projects in Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Somalia. In Germany, the association has more than 230 members and focuses on informing the German public about the situation of pastoralists in developing countries. 

World Health Organization Collaborating Centres for Rabies Research
Currently there are 11 WHO collaborating centres for rabies research. The WHO collaborating centres are institutions such as research institutes, parts of universities or academies, which are designated by the Director-General to carry out activities in support of the Organization's programmes. Currently there are over 900 WHO collaborating centres in 99 Member States working with WHO on areas such as nursing, occupational health, communicable diseases, nutrition, mental health, chronic diseases and health technologies.