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One in every four persons killed by rabies in TN bitten by pet dogs: Data
The Morning Standard
|August 25, 2025
WITH the recent Supreme Court judgments triggering intense and polarised debates on the issue of increasing stray dog population, dog bites and rabies cases, data show that of the 64 rabies deaths recorded in Tamil Nadu in the last 19 months (January 2024 to August 2025), 15 deaths (23.4%) were caused by pet dog bites and the rest due to attack by stray dogs (76%).

According to the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine data accessed by TNIE, of the 43 rabies deaths recorded in 2024, 41 were due to partial or complete lack of vaccination, and two persons died even after completion of the full vaccination schedule due to possible viral load.
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