Rabies elimination in Sri Lanka, goal is 2020
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#1W2KX)
Sri Lanka is the first country in the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region to develop a national strategy for elimination of dog-mediated rabies. Sri Lanka's goal is the elimination of rabies by 2020 and the progress to date has been impressive. In all of 2015, the country saw 24 human rabies deaths and in ["]