World Rabies Day – 28 September
September 30 , 2018
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- The World Rabies Day is observed every year on 28 September across the world to raise awareness about rabies disease and its preventable measures.
- The 2018 theme was ‘Rabies: Share the message. Save a life’.
- Observance of the day seeks to raise awareness about the impact of rabies on animals and human beings.
- World Rabies Day is initiative of Global Alliance for Rabies Control. And it was initiated in 2007.
- The day, 28 September, is to mark death anniversary of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and microbiologist who had developed the first rabies vaccine.
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