Overview

• Following the Colima-confirmed death of a man from Tonila, SADER and ASICA activated an epidemiological protocol to address possible paralytic rabies in the area.
• Teams began an investigation to determine the focus of infection, with surveillance and zoosanitary measures now in place across the municipality.
• Authorities are administering antirabies vaccines to livestock throughout Tonila and conducting capture of hematophagous bats to monitor viral circulation.
• Officials warned that human infection can occur through handling an infected bovine’s oral cavity or contact with saliva, blood, or cranial material, not only from bites.
• Guidance urges routine livestock vaccination from birth, reporting suspected cases via 33-38-18-28-00 ext. 76201, avoiding handling symptomatic animals, and not consuming meat or milk from possibly infected animals; recent coverage also notes a separate 2025 fatality in Zacatecas after a skunk attack, with WHO recognition since 2019 of Mexico’s elimination of dog-mediated human rabies.