Vaccination of dogs is the way to prevent human rabies

AN 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL in Southwest China's Chongqing died of rabies on Dec 8. She was bitten by an infected dog in May, but her family did not realize that the dog had the disease. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Had the girl received the rabies vaccination immediately after being bitten, she would have survived.

Her death shows the lack of attention to zoonotic diseases, diseases that can be transmitted to humans from animals, on the part of public health authorities. Cattle and pets should receive injections in order to prevent several kinds of common zoonosis, such as rabies, from being transmitted,