A pack of dogs in a shelter in Penang. Veterinary Services director-general Dr Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam says immune areas have been created in the northern states to protect the population against the spread of rabies. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 17, 2019.
THE Veterinary Department has vaccinated more than 140,000 of the 205,000 dogs in Sarawak, which have been checked since 2017 to curtail the spread of rabies, said Veterinary Services director-general Dr Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam. He said to date, Sarawak had 21 fatalities, the highest number in the country, from rabies and studies have shown that in 95% of those were through contact with infected dogs.
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