Write a report on stray animals
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The number of stray dogs worldwide has been estimated between 200 and 600 million. Europe alone is estimated to have 100 million stray dogs. According to Bill Garrett, the Executive Director of the Atlanta Humane Society, there are at least 5 times more homeless animals than homeless people.
When certain stray dogs bite humans, they infect those people with rabies, a viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain. Each year, more than 15 million people are treated with a post-bite rabies vaccination, while 55,000 people die of rabies. 95% of rabies cases occur in Asia and Africa, and 99% of rabies transmissions to humans are caused by dogs.
This situation is especially pronounced in India. The country is home to about 30 million stray dogs, which amounts to 1 stray dog per 42 people in the country. By some estimates, there are more stray dogs in India than in any other country.
Delhi alone has between 260,000 and 400,000 stray dogs. According to government hospital records, there were 77,294 dog bites in Delhi just between January and October 2015. That’s a bite every 6 minutes.