Though rabies vaccines exist for both humans and animals, the disease has the highest number of deaths among diseases transmitted from animals to humans in Vietnam.

About 75 people in Vietnam die of rabies each year, despite progress being made over the past decade, said Vu Cao Cuong, deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Health.

Heartbreaking deaths from rabies recently raised alarm about the lack of control over dogs and low rates of rabies vaccination for these animals, said health experts.

Although Vietnam has made great strides in rabies control over the past 10 years, many people still die of rabies every year.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Hanoi yesterday have they recorded a death caused by rabies this week.

Vietnam needs to adopt lessons learned and work closely with local governments to ensure fewer deaths from rabies.

The number of people killed by rabies during the first eight months of the year showed signs of increasing in comparison to the same period from last year.

Northern Vietnam remains the region with the highest number of death from rabies, accounting for 80 percent of the country’s mortality, deputy director of the Department of Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan said at a meeting yesterday.

Thai Nguyen Central Hospital said that it had treated serious dog bites on a 20-month-old boy from the province’s Dai Tu District.

 Around 59,000 people die every year from rabies transmitted by dogs, with the poorer regions of the world worst affected, says a report by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control.

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 VietNamNet Bridge - More than 175,000 people have been bitten by dogs so far this year, of which 64 died. Most of the samples were positive for the rabies virus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some unknown dogs have appeared in Bac Son Commune, Soc Son District, Hanoi, and attacked more than 50 people, causing worries in the local community of the threat of rabies.

VietNamNet Bridge - Due to half a million of people who are bitten by dogs each year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) aims to firstly know the exact number of dogs for vaccination, not to give a code for each dog.