Rabies Rising
A number of towns in Indonesia are making every effort to anticipate the spread of rabies. Bali is a designated area experiencing an extraordinary event—an outbreak of rabies—and hundreds have already died of the disease in East Nusa Tenggara.
February 10, 2009
AFTER Bali’s Badung Husbandry Service sent dog brain samples to the Maros Veterinary Laboratory in South Sulawesi, it was discovered that one in every 54 dogs in Bali is infected with rabies. To curb the spread of rabies in Badung, the Husbandry Service in cooperation with the Yudisthira Swarga Bali Animal Welfare has been catching, anesthetizing, and destroying stray dogs since November last year.
Vaccinations have also been administered to
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