Air Guns And Vaccines: Why Can't Kerala Stop The Biting Dog Menace?
By Rejimon Kuttappan Last month, CCTV visuals of a stray dog attacking a 12-year-old in Arakkinar in Kozhikode district went viral. Nooras was taken to the hospital and is recovering at home now. It shocked many, but not quite the residents of Kerala. Just a day before the incident, five persons including two children were attacked by a pack of stray dogs in the village. On September 5, a 12-year-old girl died weeks after being bitten by a stray dog, despite having taken three doses of the anti-rabies vaccine. Kerala is no stranger to brutal attacks of stray dogs that sometimes have led to dea...