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BHUTAN ENDS DOG-TRANSMITTED RABIES
Bhutan has recorded zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies since June 2023, when the country’s last case was recorded in Tareythang, Sarpang. On September 4, the World Health Organization made it official: Bhutan is the first country in its South-East Asia region to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem, and the second country in the world to do so, after Mexico. Chile is the only other country to have reached the milestone.
The turning point came in July 2021, when Bhutan’s king…
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