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Detailed explanation-1: -World Rabies Day was celebrated for the first time on September 28, 2007. The Alliance for Rabies Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, collaborated with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to facilitate the observance of this day.

Detailed explanation-2: -World Rabies Day (WRD) is observed each year on September 28, promoted by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control to raise awareness of the consequences of human and animal rabies and how to prevent it. The date honors Louis Pasteur, who produced the first anti-rabies vaccine.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wednesday 28 September 2022 is the 16th World Rabies Day. This year’s theme “Rabies: One Health, Zero Deaths” highlights the connection between the health of the environment and the ones of both people and animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indeed, almost 90 years after Jenner initiated immunization against smallpox, Pasteur developed another vaccine-the first vaccine against rabies. He had decided to attack the problem of rabies in 1882, the year of his acceptance into the Académie Française.