KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara (The Jakarta Post) : Two of the 40 people infected with rabies over the last two weeks in West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara, have died, an official said Tuesday.
All of the infections resulted from the victims being bitten by dogs.
IG Ngurah Harijaya, head of the West Manggarai Health Office, said in a report to East Nusa Tenggara Governor Piet A Tallo the regency's death toll from rabies was now four this year.
Ngurah said the 40 rabies cases were recorded in five districts: Komodo with 15 cases, Sanonggoang (2), Lembor (15), Kuwus (5) and Macang (2).
"There was an increase in the number of infections in nearly each district," he said.
According to data from the East Nusa Tenggara administration, of about 200,000 dogs in Fores and Lembata, 50,000 have not been vaccinated.
The data also show 134 out of 647 peopled infected with rabies over the past 10 years have died.
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