New Delhi, Jan. 4 -- The Delhi Government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, has decided to declare Human Rabies a "Notifiable Disease" under the Epidemic Diseases Act as part of a major public health initiative.

The objective of this notification, according to an official release, is to strengthen surveillance, ensure timely case reporting, and enable rapid public health action to prevent the spread of rabies.

Upon the issuance, all government and private healthcare institutions--including medical colleges and private practitioners--will be mandated to immediately report suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of human rabies to the relevant health authorities.

While rabies is almost always fatal once clinical sympt...