Rabies cases drop massively in more areas

“Human rabies deaths have fallen 47 percent in Guinea over the past three years, according to Khaité Sall, the country’s Minister of Health and Sanitation. Sall credits a massive vaccination campaign that has immunized more than 290,000 dogs against the deadly virus since 2023.”

Human Progress quotes a report that “in 2023, Guinea launched its first large-scale, nationally coordinated dog vaccination campaign. Between August and December, more than 88 000 animals – over 90% of them dogs – were vaccinated across 10 high-risk prefectures. It was an important first step for a country that had never before implemented a campaign of this scale.”

Bhutan has eliminated dog-transmitted human rabies as a public health problem.

Rabies cases have fallen by 12,000 in neighboring India, to less than 6,000 cases per year: “Dogs are biting less in India. A 2025 survey reported 9.1 million dog bites, down from 17 million recorded in 2003. Over the same period, the number of rabies deaths in India dropped from over 17,000 to 5,726,” reported The Doomslayer.

Malaria cases have fallen 80 percent in India since 2015.

A vaccine has been developed to save koalas from chlamydia, a disease that killed thousands of koalas and devastated koala populations.

Cheetahs recently returned to India after being absent since 1952, when they went extinct there. India has also doubled its tiger population.