Do not gloss over the rabies disease burden

The death on Monday of a nine-year-old boy in Kabale District after contracting rabies from a stray dog opens an old festering wound in the country. The boy died on a day his contemporaries returned to school to have a crack at the third and final term of their academic year in Primary Three.

As the initial shock of the death gave way to retrospection, the urgency of the stray dog crisis made residents uncomfortable with the idea of inaction. They are not alone. In the capital, Kampala, where 6,000 of the 20,000-strong dog population is homeless, man’s so-called best friend…