Can India finally eliminate rabies? A state-level study from Goa offers hopeful signs

Prabhu, M. Vaccines Work (2022) CC
For more than 100 years, the clearest route to elimination of dog-mediated rabies has been via mass vaccination of the animal hosts. It’s worked in plenty of countries. Still, in others, like India, which grapples with a third of the world’s rabies burden, large populations of free-roaming, hard-to-track, often hard-to-reach dogs have made elimination an elusive goal.