Plan to knock rabies out in Thailand with an army of 8,600

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Plan to knock rabies out in Thailand with an army of 8,600 ‘livestock volunteers’ across the kingdom

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Deadly disease reared up in 2018 due to a shortage of vaccines from 2016 and an explosion of the disease among the country’s population of wild dogs. The latest plan focuses on the vaccination of animals reaching into every locality of the kingdom with the help of sub-district volunteers. https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/12/05/volunteer-plan-to-clear-rabies-from-thailand/ James Morris reports from Bangkok.

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