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Andhra Pradesh sees 27 deaths due to rabies in last 18 months, say Health Department officials

Andhra Pradesh has reported as many as 27 deaths due to rabies in the last one-and-a-half years, according to the State’s Health Department.

However, replying to a question posed in the Lok Sabha on the fatalities caused due to rabies in the country in 2022, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Satya Pal Singh Baghel said that 269 deaths had been reported in the country, and 29 of them were in Andhra Pradesh.

Officials of the State Health and Family Welfare Department maintained that it was only 15 deaths in 2022, and that the relevant data had been uploaded in the Integrated Health Information Portal.

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