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Causing 21,000 Deaths a Year, Rabies is India’s Silent Killer

A fatal but preventable disease. Understand rabies before it kills you or your loved ones.

Parul Agrawal
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India accounts for more than twenty one thousand rabies deaths each year, giving it the highest incidence of rabies globally. (Photo: Reuters)
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India accounts for more than twenty one thousand rabies deaths each year, giving it the highest incidence of rabies globally. (Photo: Reuters)
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World over, over 59,000 people die from rabies every year; the majority of them from Asia and Africa. India alone accounts for more than 21,000 deaths each year, making it the country with the highest incidence of rabies globally.

While most deaths are reported from rural areas, rabies does not discriminate. Among those who die are lawyers, doctors, officers– people from affluent families.

The Quint’s Parul Agrawal explores the reasons behind why thousands in India dying a horrific death.

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Published: 12 Jul 2016,12:12 PM IST

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