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Sunday, Jun 15, 2025
The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and the subordinate rules it spawned, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2001, prohibit killing or even maiming of stray dogs.
Medical College Hospital Superintendent informed that the kin of the deceased has not given any complaints regarding the man’s death.
Within five months, the State has already used 62 per cent of the overall stock meant for the whole year.
The health department said a bite to the head was possible cause of death of the 12-year-old in Pathanamthitta, who had been administered three doses of rabies vaccination.
The incidents, which come on the eve of Onam, have once again pulled the veil on the mismanagement plaguing local self-government bodies. It is entrusted with the culling of stray dogs in the state.
Health Minister Veena George said the state has sought a directive to re-examine the vaccines certified by the Central Drugs Laboratory.
The alarming increase in post-vaccination rabies deaths had prompted Kerala CM to assure the Assembly On August 30 that an expert team would be constituted to study the efficacy of the rabies vaccine.
There has been almost double the rise in cases of dogs infected with the deadly rabies virus in the last five years.
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