Dog bite in India should not be taken lightly

Sad news about a death in 2017 but tells the reality that dog bite in India should not be taken lightly: https://wtop.com/virginia/2019/01/cdc-va-woman-died-from-rabies-after-yoga-retreat-in-india/, 7th Jan. 2019. The article claims that a 65 year old American lady who was on a Yoga retreat in India got bitten by a dog. She complained of pain six weeks later (at which time she may have been back in USA). She was diagnosed with rabies and an experimental treatment was tried which failed. She died on 21st May 2017. She was NOT vaccinated against rabies.

Ravi: What I have been told is that if one gets a dog bite in India including in Puttaparthi, one has to go to the Doctor and take a course of injections (six of them, I was told in the past) which could be somewhat painful too (not like a normal injection). That, I believe but am not sure, takes care of the possibility that the dog was infected with rabies when it bit and possibly transmitted the virus. Anti-rabies vaccination is not common in India, I believe.

To be on the safer side, I avoid petting or getting close to dogs in Puttaparthi. Puttaparthi has many stray dogs.

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