Catastrophic out-of-pocket expenses and lack of transportation from rural areas prevent many of the poorest people in India from accessing primary health-care services, leaving them to carry the burden of rabies.
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可预防的疾病
A preventable disease
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狂犬病主要通过狗的咬伤传给人类，其在症状显露后总是致命的，但它完全可预防。
Rabies, passed to humans primarily through dog bites, is always fatal by the time its symptoms start, but it is entirely preventable.
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被咬伤后用肥皂和水彻底清洗创口是预防感染的有效方法。
Washing wounds thoroughly with soap and water after a bite is an effective way of preventing infection, while both pre-exposure and post-exposure vaccinations for humans exist.
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同时，存在人的接触前和接触后疫苗接种。
Global elimination of the disease is feasible through mass vaccinations of dogs, which transmit 95% of rabies cases to humans.
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尽管如此，估计全世界每年有5.9万人死于狂犬病，其中约90%发生在非洲和亚洲农村地区的儿童中。
Despite this, an estimated 59 000 people die from rabies across the world each year, with around 90% of these deaths occurring among children living in rural areas in Africa and Asia.
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仅在印度一地，估计每年就有1.8万至2万人死于狂犬病。
In India alone, estimates range between 18 000 to 20 000 human deaths from rabies each year.
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死者许多是儿童，往往死于医疗设施之外，这意味着他们的死亡没有记录。
Many of these deaths are children, often dying outside of medical facilities – meaning their deaths go unrecorded.