Kenya Targets Dogs in Ambitious Plan to Eradicate Rabies

Kenya is the first African country to embark on an ambitious program to completely eliminate rabies by vaccinating the country’s dogs. Other African countries are watching closely to see whether a disease that kills thousands every year could actually be wiped off the continent altogether. To many people, rabies is the stuff of nightmares, but Jean Gilchrist knows it intimately. She has been bitten by rabid dogs four times, and knows exactly what to look for. “There’s the furious type,...

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