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In 2017, a disease killed everybody it infected in India. The disease in question also happens to be 100 percent vaccine preventable. Such is the strange dichotomy of rabies. Its relative rarity compared to diseases such as  malaria mean it often goes unreported in the Indian media. This does not make it any less deadly. Since 2010, only six people have survived infection with rabies in India. Its 100 percent death toll in 2017 speaks volumes. By comparison, mortality rates for Japanese encephalitis and swine flu were twelve and six percent respectively. Of the myriad of rare diseases in India feared for their lethal potential, no other disease was found to have a 100 percent risk of death. However, rabies does not have to be a death sentence. A vaccine was created against rabies as far back as 1885, when French scientist Louis Pasteur created and tested his experimental vaccine in humans. "In 2017, a disease killed everybody it infected in India. The disease in question … Read Full Article about Rabies: Less than one survivor per year