Rabies vaccinations save lives but where are the vaccines? Global vaccine inequity and escalating rabies-related mortality in low- and middle-income countries

Human rabies (Sanskrit "rabhas", to do violence; Latin "rabere", to rage) is an ancient scourge which claims the lives of tens of thousands of people per year worldwide. Numbers of clinical cases and deaths are grossly under-reported due to diagnostic limitations in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) which are endemic for rabies [[1]Henry R. Etymologia: Rabies.Emerg Infect Dis. 2012; 18: 1169https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1807.ET1807Crossref Google Scholar,[2]Pantha S Subedi D Poudel U Subedi S Kaphle K Dhakal S. Review of rabies in Nepal.One Health. 2020; 10: 1-8https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100155Crossref Scopus (28) Google Scholar]. Rabies remains a significant yet neglected public health problem, particularly in LMICs with children under 15 years of age representing 40% of annual fatalities [[3]Amoako YA El-Duah P Sylverken AA Owusu M Yeboah R…