Vietnam: With Rabies Deaths on the Rise, a Menu Item Gets a Closer Look

[lsanderson]

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: September 27, 2010

Rabies deaths are on the rise in Vietnam, according to the country’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, whose director blamed slack management by provincial health authorities and public ignorance of the threat.

But subscribers to ProMED, a disease-outbreak Web site, have pointed out another contributing factor: in the mountainous rural northern provinces where the problem is worst, many people are fond of eating dogs. More