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Powered by Buttondown- Chile has gone 54 years without a rabies case from a dog, and it can now prove it
The Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization have validated Chile as having eliminated dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem, the first country in South America to be verified. Its last human case from the dog-carried variant of the virus was in 1972.
- Bhutan has eliminated dog-transmitted rabies, the first country in its region
The World Health Organization has validated Bhutan as having eliminated dog-mediated human rabies as a public health problem, the first country in its South-East Asia Region to do it, after more than three years without a death.
- Timor-Leste has eliminated trachoma, and cleared it from an entire WHO region
The World Health Organization validated Timor-Leste on 3 September 2026 as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. It was the last country in WHO's South-East Asia Region where the disease still counted as one.