
19/03/2023
Sterilisation & vaccination of reduces rabies - Delhi had 37 rabies deaths in FIVE years. While even one death is not acceptable, please see this against Delhi population of 32,941,000. Rabies infected 0.00002276797% of population in a year.
Compare Delhi's annual rabies deaths which are averaged at 7 amongst a population of 3.2 crore people, with that of India's average (WHO estimates) which is 3 in 1,00,000 population a year. That means 300+ people in Delhi would have died of rabies WITHOUT Animal Birth Control Rules.
USA estimates annual rabies related deaths of 1-3 per year. The population of entire country of USA is approx 33 crore.
We can safely say that if sterilisations & vaccinations of dogs continue, Delhi is moving towards USA average of rabies deaths, and eventually 0 rabies deaths.