Fig. 1.

Outcome measures of human health impact in Tamil Nadu for each year since implementation undiscounted. Rabies control strategies evaluated include maintenance of the status quo (gray lines), expanding targets of exclusive stray canine vaccination (CV; blue lines of progressively deeper shades), and expanding targets for combined stray canine vaccination and sterilization (CVS; red lines of progressively deeper shades). The epidemiological impact of canine vaccination and female sterilization is identical to the epidemiological impact of CVS. (A) Annual human rabies deaths. (B) Annual human victims of dog bites. (C) Annual DALYs incurred from both rabies mortality and dog bite morbidity for each year since implementation.