One canine rabies case reported final 12 months, no human affected | Goa Information

Panaji: Mission Rabies reported one confirmed rabies-positive canine case in Goa, detected in Dec 2025 in Bardez. No human rabies circumstances had been recorded within the state through the 12 months.“This was in Colvale, the place somebody reported the signs and the volunteers instantly sprang into motion to include the canine,” defined director, training, Mission Rabies, Dr Murugan Appupillai.Within the earlier 12 months, 2024, solely three canine rabies circumstances had been detected.“No animal rabies-positive circumstances had been detected within the six inside talukas of Goa since 2019. Sporadic animal-positive circumstances proceed to be reported from sure border talukas; nevertheless, these had been promptly and successfully contained. It was only one animal-positive case reported in Bardez taluka throughout 2025, which necessitated the implementation of a focused marketing campaign to remove any remaining circulating rabies virus on this space,” mentioned Appupillai.About 200 persons are working for this marketing campaign, together with worldwide volunteers, from Feb 20 to 27 for vaccination of pets and neighborhood canines, sterilisation of canines, rabies surveillance, and consciousness actions. This marketing campaign was inaugurated by Nilkant Halarnkar, the minister for fisheries and animal husbandry, on Friday at Mapusa.Since Sep 2017, Goa largely prevented human rabies circumstances, incomes a “rabies-controlled” standing in 2021 after three consecutive years and not using a single loss of life from the virus. The streak was damaged by one case in 2023, however there have been no fatalities in 2024 and 2025, and none thus far this 12 months.