SANTO DOMINGO.- The Dominican College of Veterinary Doctors (COLVET) denounced several outbreaks of human rabies in the North Region, specifically in Santiago.
The medical branch of the Northern Region specifies that rabies outbreaks have been registered in the communities of Puñal, Matanzas and Hato del Yaque, where, respectively, two dogs and a cat attacked humans.
“Even, all registered cases have definitive laboratory confirmation,” explain the veterinarians
“These outbreaks of rabies show the deterioration due to carelessness of the health authorities on the National Program for the Control and Eradication of Rabies, a very dangerous disease, given its extremely high lethality or ability to cause death to those attacked with bites by these animals”, warns COLVET in a press release.
Dr. Elvis Díaz, president of the Northern Regional Branch of COLVET, linked the outbreak to the neglect of the Rabies Control and Eradication Program. Also, to deficiencies such as the lack of training and qualification to the personnel in charge of carrying out the vaccination or applying the biological.
Díaz called the authorities of the Ministry of Health to put its maximum effort and interest in providing an urgent response to the aforementioned outbreaks in Hato del Yaque, Matanzas and Puñal, while applying prevention measures in the face of the threat of expansion of the dangerous and deadly disease.
