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The recent tragic death of a 13-year-old girl from rabies has highlighted the persistent public health challenge posed by this preventable tropical disease in the Philippines. Jamaica, a young girl from Manila, was bitten by a stray dog and, out of fear and misunderstanding, hid the incident from her parents. Two months later, on April 6, 2024, she died from encephalitic rabies, a universally fatal disease once symptoms appear.

A woman in her 70s from Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, has tragically become the world’s first reported fatality from the Oz…