Outside Magazine, March 2012
Monday, February 06, 2012 1

Rabies

Bali, Indonesia

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Bali, Indonesia

Bali, Indonesia    Photographer: Sonny Tumbelaka/Getty

PR Challenge: At last count, 132 people had died after contracting rabies from the ­island’s ­feral dogs.

In the Hot Seat: John Daniels, president of Bali Discovery Tours

The Spin: “Those cases were all outside the tourist areas. I haven’t heard of a tourist getting rabies, but maybe somebody was bitten and treated that I don’t know about. Meanwhile, there’s been a big vaccination drive for dogs, and officials claim we’ll be rabies-free by 2013. There are fewer stray dogs on the streets than there once were, because a lot of them have been poisoned. Of course, now we have a plague of rats because we’re losing the dogs. Dogs are excellent at catching rats.”

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