“Chile has become the first country in South America to receive the World Health Organization (WHO) validation for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem. The recognition highlights more than 50 years of progress without a human case of rabies and confirms the country's capacity to prevent transmission from re-emerging…
Chile's last reported case of human rabies transmitted by dogs occurred in 1972. The achievement followed sustained national efforts to combat the disease through the timely provision of the vaccine to individuals potentially exposed to the rabies virus, typically through bites, scratches, or contact with saliva from infected or suspected rabid dogs.”
