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Pune Cuts Stray Dog Rabies While Dog Bite Treatments Rise and National Rabies Deaths Climb

Tightened Animal Birth Control rules now require municipalities to boost immunoglobulin supplies to tackle rising dog bite treatments, spiking rabies deaths, uneven programme enforcement

While 373 suspected rabies cases were reported in 2018, only 19 cases have been recorded so far in 2025. Similarly, confirmed rabies cases reduced from 220 in 2018 to just 3 in the current year. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)
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Overview

  • Rabies cases among Pune’s stray dogs dropped from 373 suspected and 220 confirmed in 2018 to 19 suspected and 3 confirmed so far in 2025, driving positivity rates down to 15%.
  • Pune Municipal Corporation has administered 191,466 rabies vaccination doses to stray and community dogs since 2021 under its mass vaccination and ABC campaigns.
  • Over 100,000 dog bite cases have been treated in PMC hospitals since 2022, including 21,000 in 2022, 37,000 in 2024 and 16,000 in the first five months of 2025.
  • India’s presumptive human rabies cases fell to 1,079 in 2024 from 4,885 in 2022 even as fatalities rose to 180 from 22, with Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh reporting the most deaths.
  • The government has tightened ABC programme rules and is offering municipalities financial aid—up to ₹800 per dog and ₹600 per cat plus a one-time ₹2 crore hospital grant—to strengthen neutering, vaccination and immunoglobulin access.