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Authorities in Nakhon Ratchasima province launched a special campaign in City Hall on Friday (June 5) to teach people how to protect themselves not just from Covid-19, but also dengue and rabies. 

Khon Kaen Governor Somsak Jungtrakul said on Wednesday (April 22) that rabid dogs had been discovered in a community of the northeastern province.

Ten villagers in two tambon in this Southern province are being monitored for possible infection with the rabies virus, a veterinarian of the Krabi Livestocks Development Office said Wednesday.

Safety guidelines have been issued after a 32-year-old man in Surin became the first person this year to die of rabies.

THE DISEASE Control Department (DCD) is warning people to be cautious with animals during this hot season as the heat makes them irritable, and they might bite at the slightest stroke.

Khon Kaen’s first report this year of a rabid dog prompted the hasty vaccination on Wednesday of pet dogs and cats living within a kilometre of the sighting.

Pet dogs and cats in Krabi's Muang district were vaccinated on Friday after a puppy dog died from rabies in the area on Wednesday.

Authorities are giving rabies vaccines to cats and dogs within a one kilometre radius of where a stray puppy dog bit a seven-year-old boy and his father in a college compound in Tambon Bua Thong of Buri Ram's Muang district on Monday.

Livestock Development Department director general Sorawit Thanito on Saturday vowed to end the spread of rabies in Thailand by next year.

A 65-year-old man died of rabies in Songkhla this week, raising the rabies death toll this year to 17, a spokesman of the Disease Control Department said on Thursday.

RABIES OUTBREAK in Thailand is far from being under control, a medical expert has warned, even though official statistics from the Livestock Development Department show a declining rate of rabies infection.

Test results received on Friday morning have confirmed that the stray dog which attacked a 19-day-old infant on Wednesday at her home in Tambon Than Poon's Moo 2 village of Nakhon Si Thammarat's Chalerm Phrakiat district, had rabies.