Rabies is an old disease. Older, perhaps, than any written account of it. For thousands of years, humans have lived alongside the animals that carry it. Dogs, foxes, bats and other mammals have shared our settlements and landscapes.
Somewhere in that long history of proximity between species, rabies entered the human story. What makes rabies remarkable is the gap between its antiquity and our ability to prevent it. Humanity learned how to stop the disease more than a century ago, yet people continue to die from it in 2026.
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