LARKANA: A total of 10 dog bite cases has been reported in Larkana, taking the overall toll to 210 in the last 21 days in the city.
As per details, three children, a woman was among 10 people to whom the dog bit. The affected people were immediately shifted to the emergency ward of Chandka Hospital.
ARV centre in-charge said, the affected people were given vaccine and their condition is said to be out of danger.
An alarming rise of dog-bite incidents being reported across the country with a common complaint about the scarcity of the anti-rabies vaccine. The doctors advise inoculation of the anti-rabies vaccine shortly after the dog bite.
A victim of a rabid dog bites likely to suffer from hydrophobia, extreme fear of water, a symptom of rabies infection in humans. Last month, a boy suffering from rabies died after being bitten by a stray dog in Larkana at the Indus Hospital Karachi.
According to the sources, a nine-years-old Zeeshan was bitten by a stray dog and his parents brought him to Government Hospital Larkana, where the anti-rabies vaccine was not available.
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