Vaccines and awareness among healthcare workers needed to stop rabies deaths

Residents of Ilmootiok in Narok West lining up their dogs for vaccination against rabies. [Robert Kiplagat, Standard]

Rabies has been causing preventable deaths in rural Kenya due to lack of knowledge on its prevention and management, a new study says.

To make matters worse, most healthcare workers are not familiar with categories of bite exposures or human rabies, it adds.