Rabies epidemics in Bolivia
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A boy cries while Santa Cruz de La Sierra Zoonosis Center's employees catch his dog that was in the streets. It is estimated that only the urban area of Santa Cruz has 460,000 dogs - 90,000 of them living stray in the streets. Rabies has always been endemic in Bolivia, but since 2005 it turned into an epidemic.
