Animal Vaccination and Human Education Needed to Fight Rabies

Rabies is infecting not just a resort but the entire island of Bali. Seven out of nine districts have reported cases of rabies-positive dogs.

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20091115/tap-as-indonesia-rabies-in-paradise-64ed358.html

One Balinese man says:

"As we all know that rabies is a new imported disease to the Balinese, just like terrorism, bakso sellers, scavengers, buskers, beggars. They are providing us, the native Balinese 'more bad' than 'good'. Yeah, I think we have to except and swallow those germs...

I think the local government have done their best to eliminate the street dogs and to pay a lot of attention and actions to that issue. My suggestion is, continue to eliminate unowned dogs, owners have to register their dogs, dog family planning to reduce the 'production' of Bali dogs, minimize importing dogs to Bali. Socializing one family only allowed to have one dog through the 'banjar' community, unless special case, permitted by government. Balinese always use grey/blangbungkem color dogs for sacrificial rituals, so we have to save some of those color dogs. And 'stop' eating dog meat for the Balinese at least!!!"

There seems to be a reasonable concensus around the idea that the much of the solution to this problem, like so many, is education.