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Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) News Release

 

 Annual number of deaths from rabies hits 70,000 worldwide

Economic burden of disease hits US$4 billion

“Geneva, Glasgow 28 September 2011: The Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) today announces that preliminary data released this month at the OIE Global Conference on Eliminating Rabies has estimated 70,000 people worldwide die each year from rabies at a cost of US$4 billion. ...”

 

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