Earlier this month, Lucy Wangui, a KCPE candidate from Kandara, Muranga County, succumbed to rabies. She had been on treatment since September.
About 14 years ago, Barnabas Korir, chairman of Athletics Kenya, Nairobi region, lost his eight-year old daughter, Sharon Chepchumba, from rabies after being bitten by a rabid dog in Nandi during the Christmas holidays.