World Rabies Day: September 28

• The World Rabies Day is celebrated annually on September 28 to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating this horrifying disease.
• This year the theme for the WRD is ‘Rabies: Share the message. Save a life’. 
• The day also marks the death anniversary of the French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur’, who developed the first rabies vaccine. 

Points To Remember:

1. When is the day observed?
2. Theme of 2018 WRD
3. The day is observed to mark death anniversary of whom