South Africa: People Should Not Be Dying of Rabies

28 September 2011

Johannesburg — While rabies is a deadly disease, it is preventable and people should not be dying of it, rabies experts said on World Rabies Day on Wednesday.

Experts on the disease met on World Rabies Day to discuss and share information on rabies control, prevention and treatment programmes. The meeting was organised by the Department of Health in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Sanofi Pasteur and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).

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