Every year on the 28th of September, World Rabies Day aims to raise awareness of rabies and advocate for the global elimination of the disease. The date honours Louis Pasteur, who produced the first anti-rabies vaccine in 1885. Despite an effective vaccine being developed 140 years ago, rabies still causes suffering and death for both people and animals in most of the world. Each year over 59,000 people die from rabies, children under 15 years of age are particularly vulnerable, accounting for forty percent of global deaths. According to World Health Organisation, over 99 percent of all human rabies cases are transmitted via dog bites.