Vet Services Dept steps up measures to detect rabies in strays

PUTRAJAYA: The Veterinary Services Department (DVS) has activated surveillance and sampling efforts to detect rabies in stray dogs in a 1km radius from the index case following the death of a man in Selangor's Petaling district on April 4.

In a statement on Monday (April 11), it said the result of the veterinary laboratory test using a direct fluorescent antibody test (DFAT) done on the nine samples taken from strays, however, showed all to be free of the rabies virus.