World Rabies Day

Rabies kills nearly 60,000 people per year, almost all of them preventable deaths.

World Rabies Day on September 28 marks the anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur in 1895 and raises awareness about rabies, a viral disease that kills an estimated 59,000 people annually, almost all in Africa and Asia. Rabies is 100 percent preventable through vaccination of dogs (the primary ve