KCSE, KCPE candidate sisters bitten by dog two weeks apart

Stray dogs in Nairobi’s Tassia estate. Murang’a has witnessed an increase of such dogs with health facilities running out of rabies vaccine. [File, Standard]

A 17-year-old KCSE candidate in Murang’a is the latest victim of rabies after an encounter with a rabid dog.

Mary Muthoni, a candidate at Nguthuru Secondary School in Kandara, was bitten by a stray dog, two weeks after her sister Lucy Wambui succumbed to the disease.