Fighting rabies in Africa: the Africa Rabies Expert Bureau (AfroREB).

Rabies experts from 14 francophone African countries met in Grand Bassam (Côte d'Ivoire), 10-13 March 2008. They presented the situation in their respective countries, acknowledging the lack of rabies awareness among the population, health care workers and health authorities. They recognized that infrastructure for the management of rabies exposure is scarce, modern vaccines are in limited quantity and immunoglobulins are lacking in most of their countries.

Internally driven spatiotemporal irregularity in a dc glow discharge.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of an undriven dc glow discharge at intermediate pressures (p(0)r(0)=6.2 Torr cm, i<50 mA) is investigated experimentally. Spatiotemporal irregularity and windows of regular nonlinear waves occur and are found to depend on the discharge current.