Nobody should be dying of rabies when there is an effective vaccine

Residents of Ilmootiok in Narok West lining up their dogs for vaccination against rabies. [Robert Kiplagat, Standard] 

Rabies–a viral disease spread through an animal bite– has had an effective vaccine for more than a century. Yet people continue to die from it.

Rabies kills nearly every known person that shows clinical signs of it, making it arguably one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases.