Rehabilitation is a set of measures that assist an individual who experience, or are likely to experience, disability to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in interaction with their environments. It provides disabled people with the tools they need to attain independence and self-determination.

It encompasses a board spectrum of goals that includes the prevention of loss of function; slowing the rate of loss of function; improvement or restoration of function; compensation for loss of function; maintenance of current function.

Rabies is a zoonosis (a disease that is transmitted from animals to humans) that is caused by a virus. It is known to be present in more than 150 countries and territories of all continents except Antarctica. About 60 000 people die of rabies every year, mostly in Asia and Africa.

Rabies virus infects domestic and wild animals and is spread to people through close contact with infected animals’ saliva via bites or scratches.