Rabies -- Peru
At least 12 people in remote indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have died from rabies in recent months and several more remain sick after catching the disease from bats, a local governor said on Wednesday [10 Feb 2016].
Authorities were rushing to vaccinate people in native Achuar villages near the Morona river basin where the deaths have surged, said Fernando Melendez, the governor of the Loreto region.
3 children were among the 12 dead, said Melendez.
"The death of even
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