Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Head of Health and Social Affairs of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Cri Sajjana Prajna Wekadigunawan said that vaccination can prevent transmission of rabies to humans. “Vaccination can prevent rabies from being transmitted to humans,” he said in a discussion entitled “Protecting Families and Pets from Rabies Transmission” which was followed online in Jakarta, Friday. The woman who is familiarly called Weka, said that vaccination is necessary considering that every 15 minutes someone dies due to rabies virus infection in the world. “Forty percent of them are children,” he said.
Therefore, he mentioned a number of groups that needed to be vaccinated against rabies earlier by looking at the intensity of interactions with animals.
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2023-07-21 09:36:41
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