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HIDDEN RISKS OF DOG LICKS DEMAND ACTION
The New Indian Express Kannur
|March 02, 2026
HOCKING reports from the UK’s Birmingham tell of an Indian-origin woman in her fifties who lost both hands, both legs and even her spleen after sepsis set in, triggered by nothing more dramatic than an affectionate lick on a small wound by her pet dog.
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The sheer ordinariness of the act makes the outcome unbearable. For those of us in India, this is not a distant curiosity. We already live with the daily dread of dog-related disease. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 20,000 rabies deaths occur in India annually, accounting for 36 percent of global fatalities.
This story is from the March 02, 2026 edition of The New Indian Express Kannur.
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