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Local January 17, 2019 | 1:33 pm

Dogs from Haiti could be the source of human rabies

Santo Domingo.- Dogs crossing the border from Haiti into the Dominican Republic could be the source of human rabies virus infections, Public Health minister Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas said Thursday. He said the dog that bit the child who died Dec. 15 came from Haiti, "because it was an unknown dog, which didn’t have an owner in Pedernales" (southwest). He said near the Pedernales slaughterh... Read more