Rabies is a dangerous disease. A dog's bite can carry it. People are afraid. In 1972 a person in Chile dies of it. The last one.
Then Chile vaccinates its dogs. Workers go from door to door. The vaccine is free.
Fifty years pass. Every year the dogs get the vaccine. Every year nobody dies.
On 14 September 2026 the World Health Organization gives Chile a certificate. No more rabies from dogs here. Chile is the first in South America.
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B2 · Upper intermediateOn 14 September 2026, from Santiago, Washington and Geneva, the World Health Organization certified something that had not happened. For more than fifty years, nobody in Chile had died of rabies caught from a dog. …
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