New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Rabies is a disease everyone in India has heard of. Yet, surprisingly few know what to do after a possible exposure. We know it is dangerous. We know dogs are involved. Somewhere in our collective memory is also the idea of a frightening number of injections in the stomach, which fortunately belongs in the past.

This week is a particularly good time to talk about it. World Rabies Day falls on 28 September, and this year's theme is "Stronger Together". There is some genuinely encouraging news too. Bhutan has just become the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to be validated as having eliminated dog-mediated human rabies as a public health problem. It is proof that a disease which can seem almost inevita...