Following the tragic death of a 10-year-old boy who died in the lap of her mother due to full-blown rabies in the Larkana district, the Sindh government has finally ordered the mayors, municipal commissioners and other officials to start immediate and effective campaigns for the culling of stray dogs in the province. As many as 13 people, including men, women and mostly children, have lost their lives in Sindh due to rabies encephalitis, a deadly infectious diseases caused by a rabid dogs, this year, while as many as 135,000 people, majority of whom were women and children, have been attacked and bitten by stray dogs in Sindh, including Karachi. The Sindh government came under pressure after...
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