World Rabies Day Poster Competition 2023
Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory announces winners of rabies awareness poster contest
Rabies A Global Public Health Threat – A Call for Unity in One Health
Feb. 16, 2024
MANHATTAN, KANSAS: As part of a campaign to promote rabies awareness in Kansas, the winners of a special poster contest have just been selected. This campaign, launched on World Rabies Day 2023, helps shed light on the relentless battle against rabies, an ongoing global public health threat. The mission to get the word out about rabies and to increase knowledge of the potential for wildlife rabies reservoirs to transmit the disease to humans and pets became the theme of a creative poster competition for school children in Kansas, as promoted by the K-State Rabies Laboratory and several partners.
“This was a tremendous collaborative effort, and we were fortunate to receive 297 completed entries from 30 schools across 23 counties in Kansas,” said Dr. Janine Seetahal, Director of the Rabies Laboratory at Kansas State University. “The official 2023 theme of World Rabies Day was ‘All for One and One Health for All’ reflective of the fact that rabies control and prevention is not just the responsibility of one sector over the other. Hence our judging panel comprised of representatives from the veterinary, human health and environmental sectors. We collectively judged each of the entries using standard parameters including message clarity, information accuracy, visual appeal, originality and overall impact to obtain the winners. However, we would like to acknowledge what a difficult task this was due to high quality of all the entries and great efforts put forward by the kids, we greatly thank all the students, teachers and schools for their wonderful submissions.”
The poster competition was open to Kansas students in K-12, with prizes being awarded to participating schools and students in four grade-level categories. This year’s recipients are from the following schools:
Kindergarten-2nd grade1st Place 2nd Place Special Mentions Aria Heard |
3rd-5th grade1st Place 2nd Place Special Mentions Karol Carreno |
6th-8th grade1st Place 2nd Place Special Mentions Aliza Tracy |
9th-12th grade1st Place 2nd Place Special Mentions Hailey Tracy |
Congratulations to the winners! Images of all the winning posters have been uploaded to the K-State Rabies Lab website.
The K-State Rabies Lab thanks its partners on the poster contest: Bavarian Nordic, the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment, the One Health Commission Bat Rabies Education Team and K-State Extension Wildlife Management.
About the Kansas State Rabies Laboratory
The Kansas State Rabies Laboratory is an internationally recognized laboratory facility dedicated to rabies virus diagnosis, serological testing and research towards the prevention of rabies from various angles. It collaborates with local, national, and international partners to contribute to the global effort to control rabies.
About World Rabies Day
World Rabies Day is an event observed each year on Sept. 28, to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight the One Health approach in combating this deadly disease. It is a global initiative supported by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC). For more information about the World Rabies Day Global Initiative and the worldwide efforts in rabies prevention and control, please visit the Global Health Alliance For Rabies Control.
