Kathmandu, June 21 -- year-old man from Chandragiri Municipality who was admitted to Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital on Friday, succumbed to rabies infection on Saturday.

Doctors treating the patient said that he had been bitten by a puppy a few weeks ago and had not been administered the rabies vaccine.

Family members told doctors that they could not find the vaccine at nearby health facilities and that they also did not pursue vaccination because they thought a bite from a puppy would not be serious.

"We all thought that it was not necessary to administer a vaccine since it was just a puppy," a health worker quoted a member of the victim's family as saying. "If the vaccine had been available at the nearby health fac...